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 Lies My Teacher Told Me, Loewen criticizes modern American high school history textbooks for containing incorrect information about people and events such as Christopher Columbus, the lies and inaccuracies in the history books regarding the dealings between the Europeans and the Native Americans, and their often deceptive and inaccurate teachings told about America's commerce in slavery.

He further criticizes the texts for a tendency to avoid controversy and for their bland and simplistic style.

[7] Although well received by many, critic Jere T. Humphreys observes that Loewen's implicit bias may have caused him to fail to highlight some of the positive contributions made toward improving equality in the United States.