Lies My Teacher Told Me Instant

He is portrayed as a visionary for world peace (the League of Nations) but his record of intense racism and the re-segregation of the federal government is frequently omitted. Key Thematic Distortions

Loewen identifies several ways textbooks "lie" by misrepresenting the nature of historical change:

The result of these "lies" is that many students—particularly minority students—find history boring or irrelevant. Because the textbooks "soft-pedal" or bury the conflicts that actually drive history, students lose interest in a subject that should be "lively" and "interrelated".