{"id":10329,"date":"2009-10-12T10:34:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T17:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=10329"},"modified":"2009-10-12T10:34:17","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T17:34:17","slug":"teaching-what-really-happened-how-to-avoid-the-tyranny-of-textbooks-get-students-excited-about-doing-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/10\/12\/teaching-what-really-happened-how-to-avoid-the-tyranny-of-textbooks-get-students-excited-about-doing-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks &#038; Get Students Excited About Doing History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-101209\/2009_10_12_loewen.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-101209\/2009_10_12_uprising.MP3\"> the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/img.infibeam.com\/img\/46295e86\/913\/9\/9780807749913.jpg\"\/>Every second Monday of October is federally observed as \u201cColumbus Day\u201d in the United States. In addition to the many government offices that will be closed today, many public schools will have the day off. However, when students are in class are they likely to learn the critical history behind of the 15th century figure named Christopher Columbus who supposedly \u201cdiscovered America?\u201d According to the latest book by James W. Loewen, the chances are highly unlikely. \u201cTeaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks &#038; Get Students Excited About Doing History,\u201d is the follow-up to the critic\u2019s bestselling \u201cLies My Teacher Told Me.\u201d In Loewen\u2019s latest work, he calls for a new way to approach the subject of history in schools that critically engages students of all backgrounds and avoids perpetuating the misconceptions about Columbus and numerous other topics covered in massive textbooks. With suggestions on how to instruct classes with tools such as local history assignments, \u201cTeaching What Really Happened,\u201d lays out a method on how to get students interested in the subject once again and realize its vital importance to society. People\u2019s Historian Howard Zinn has said of Loewen\u2019s latest work that \u201cit is not only a devastating critique of how our nation\u2019s history has been taught in our schools, but also a wonderful guide to how the teaching of history can open minds, excite the imagination, and educate a new generation dedicated to making this a better world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: James Loewen, author of Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks &#038; Get Students Excited About Doing History,\u201d as well as the best-selling \u201cLies My Teacher Told Me.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program Every second Monday of October is federally observed as \u201cColumbus Day\u201d in the United States. In addition to the many government offices that will be closed today, many public schools will have the day off. However, when students are in class are they likely to learn the critical history behind of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}