Ebook: Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus: What Your History Books Got Wrong

Examines the truths and myths surrounding the voyages of Columbus, presenting an alternative history intended to differ from that offered in many school textbooks.;Somebody was already living here -- Words we use determine how we think -- Exploration before Columbus -- Eurocentrism affects what textbooks include and exclude -- Why was Europe ready to act differently this time? -- Textbooks make up details about Columbus to avoid uncertainty -- Textbooks make the obstacles seem greater -- Textbooks make his motives seem purer -- Textbooks omit what Columbus did with the Americas -- Textbooks make Columbus seem more tragic -- Why do textbooks lie? -- Columbus and the "Century of progress" -- Historiography: How history changes, depending on when and where it is written -- Objections to teaching the truth about Columbus -- Result of all this is boring history -- Further reading, a video, and an invitation to a dialogue.