Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen ~ Paperback (September 1996) Touchstone Books ~ Other Editions: Hardcover ~ Lies My Teacher Told Me, a debunking of the twelve leading high-school American history textbooks, won the American Book Award, the AESA Critics' Choice Award, and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Anti-Racist Scholarship. It has sold more than a quarter-million copies in its various editions.