Lies My Teacher Told Me about Christopher Columbus: What Your History Books Got Wrong
- ISBN-10
- 1595589856
- ISBN-13
- 9781595589859
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 57
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Author
- James W. Loewen
Description
An historian sets the record straight on Columbus's "discovery" of the Americas, using art and text to sum up recent revisionist thought and to debunk common myths about the European invader responsible for the deaths of thousands. Original.
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