Textbooks tend to focus on white Europeans as the main group that colonized America. This history was full of betrayal, theft, and genocide.
Helen Keller’s biography always mentions how she learned to read and write at a young age, but no textbook mentions her socialist activism later on in life.Īnother bias in textbooks is their tendency to glorify America’s colonization. In addition, textbooks tend to gloss over controversy when discussing historical figures’ lives. For example, Woodrow Wilson is often portrayed as an idealistic leader who fought for democracy and peace, but he was also a racist and imperialist this information isn’t mentioned in textbooks. One of the main problems with textbooks is that they don’t acknowledge the negative details in historical figures’ lives. The problem is with the textbooks themselves: they’re boring and culturally biased. He begins by noting that despite the popularity of historical novels and movies, American students hate their history classes. In Lies My Teacher Told Me, James Loewen discusses the biases of history textbooks. 1-Page Summary of Lies My Teacher Told Me Overall Summary
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