How History Classes Helped Create a ‘Post-Truth’ America

“By providing students an inadequate history education, [sociologist and historian James W.] Loewen argues, America’s schools breed adults who tend to conflate empirical fact and opinion, and who lack the media literacy necessary to navigate conflicting information.” A Q&A between Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, and Atlantic writer Alia Wong.

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