History Lessons offers a lighthearted and fascinating challenge to the biases we bring to our understanding of American history. The subject of widespread attention when it was first published in 2004 including a full front-page review in the Washington Post Book World and features on NPR s Talk of the Nation and the History Channel this book gives us a glimpse into classrooms across the globe, where opinions about the United States are first formed.

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