Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Graphic Adaptation

Since its first publication in the 1990s, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one of the most important and successful — and beloved — history books of our time. As the late Howard Zinn said, “Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book.”

Now, artist Nate Powell — the first cartoonist ever to win a National Book Award — has adapted Loewen’s classic work into a graphic edition that captures both Loewen’s text and the irreverent spirit of his work. These illustrations bring to life the true history chronicled in Lies My Teacher Told Me, and ample text boxes and callouts ensure nothing is lost in translation. [Adapted from publishers’ description.]

James Loewen’s history of our country is everything most textbooks are not: critical, idea-rich, anti-racist, class-conscious—and funny. Loewen’s irreverent storytelling comes to life in Nate Powell’s action-packed adaptation of Loewen’s classic Lies My Teacher Told Me. This volume is especially welcome at a moment when truthful history is under attack. —Bill Bigelow, curriculum editor of Rethinking Schools and co-director of Zinn Education Project

ISBN: 9781620977033 | New Press