Wilfred Reilly Books

Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America’s School Curricula

A college professor debunks the myths that have infiltrated America’s school curricula.

In 1995, James W. Loewen penned the influential critique Lies My Teacher Told Me, which addressed the sanitized and omitted aspects of American history from a left-leaning perspective.

However, in the decades since, false leftist narratives—equally flawed—have come to dominate American academia and education. In the same spirit but updated for 2024, Wilfred Reilly dismantles the scholastic myths propagated by the left, uncovers fresh perspectives on “established” events, and challenges our conventional understanding of history. Among the popular lies he debunks:

• “The ‘Red Scare’ was a moral panic that caught no communists”
• “Native Americans were peaceful people who spent all day dancing”
• “European colonialism was—empirically—a no-good, terrible, very bad thing”
• “The racist ‘Southern Strategy’ turned the South Republican”
• “The Vietnam War was unpopular and pointless”

Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me sets the record straight, explaining that there were indeed communists in Hollywood, that many Native American tribes practiced cannibalism, owned slaves, and made them march the Trail of Tears, and that history, while often grim for Black Americans, was generally harsher than we tend to acknowledge.

Smart, irreverent, and deeply researched, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me will revolutionize your understanding of history and offer a new and refreshing way to teach and think about the past.