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Chris Hedges: How Teaching History Is Too Often A Form Of Social Control, Part I

Lies

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Dandelion Salad

with Chris Hedges

RT America on Aug 22, 2020

Chris Hedges discusses the teaching of history as a form of indoctrination with Professor James W. Loewen.

Loewen’s book: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. His new book, a memoir, is: Up a Creek, with a Paddle: Tales of Canoeing and Life.

From the archives:

Chris Hedges: Those Statues Are Statements Of White Supremacy, Part II

Chris Hedges: The Importance of Howard Zinn

Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress by Howard Zinn

A People’s History of American Empire by Howard Zinn

4 thoughts on “Chris Hedges: How Teaching History Is Too Often A Form Of Social Control, Part I”

  1. Pingback: Columbus, the Indians and Human Progress Zinn – Dandelion Salad

  2. Pingback: Chris Hedges: Those Statues Are Statements Of White Supremacy, Part II – Dandelion Salad

  3. i went to a very,very expensive elite high school in N.Y.C.,during the 50’s—later i found out my history teacher was an officer in an association of history teachers created by the C.I.A…..

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