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- Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got… 3,166 copies, 51 reviews
- Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got… 1,043 copies, 19 reviews
- Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong 662 copies, 10 reviews
- Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism 203 copies, 3 reviews
- Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus: What Your History… 67 copies
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- Mississippi: Conflict and Change 19 copies
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