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A Short History of the World: H. G. Wells: 1922 Non-fiction An expanded, Spanish-language translation of A Short History of the World, discussing recent world events, was banned by Spanish censors in 1940. This edition of A Short History was not published in Spain until 1963. In two 1948 reports, Spanish censors gave a list of objections to the ...
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong is a 1995 book by James W. Loewen that critically examines twelve popular American high school history textbooks. [1] In the book, Loewen concludes that the textbook authors propagate false, Eurocentric, and mythologized views of American history. In addition to his ...
Lies Across America, a 1999 book by James Loewen, is a sequel to his 1995 work Lies My Teacher Told Me.The book focuses on historical markers and museums across the United States, arguing that every historic site is "a tale of two eras": the one from when the event happened and the one from when the event was commemorated.
Michela Wrong is a British journalist who reported on Africa for over 20 years as a foreign correspondent for different news outlets including Reuters and Financial Times. [1] [2] Wrong says that she initially believed the conventional Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) account, but after the 1998 assassination of former interior minister Seth Sendashonga, "I realised I no longer believed most of ...
Column: History gets Jimmy Carter wrong, both underrated and overrated. Mark Z. Barabak. December 29, 2024 at 1:41 PM.
The government has been warned not to be “on the wrong side of history” as the plight of prisoners trapped under indefinite jail terms was compared to high-profile scandals involving the Post ...
The New York Times was criticized for the work of reporter Walter Duranty, who served as its Moscow bureau chief from 1922 through 1936.Duranty wrote a series of stories in 1931 on the Soviet Union and won a Pulitzer Prize for his work at that time; however, he has been criticized for his denial of widespread famine, most particularly the Holodomor, the Ukraine famine in the 1930s.
The authors open the book by suggesting that current popular views on the progress of western civilization, as presented by Francis Fukuyama, Jared Diamond, Yuval Noah Harari, Charles C. Mann, Steven Pinker, and Ian Morris, are not supported by anthropological or archaeological evidence, but owe more to philosophical dogmas inherited unthinkingly from the Age of Enlightenment.