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In the second half of  Lies, Loewen still picks many examples of themes and time periods that history textbooks have gotten wrong and tells why the textbooks are wrong. However, in the last couple chapters, Loewen explains why textbooks are published with all if this misleading information, and what the effect of the lies in our nation's textbooks have on students.
Loewen describes how the textbooks are mostly written by knowledgeable historians and authors, yet the textbooks are continually taking the view that America is always the good guy and never made any mistakes, which is a view that no decent historian could support with real facts. The reasons why historians write these blatantly wrong textbooks is because in order for them to make money, the textbooks have to get approved and adopted by school boards. This means that the school boards have to like what they read, and talking about how social class plays a huge roll in history or how the US may have made a mistake in invading Iraq would not be much liked by nationalist school boards and therefore not approved.
Loewen also describes the effects that these textbooks have on students. One of the most obvious is that students are learning incorrect information about history. The other is that since these textbooks are written to be absolutely without a doubt, and that most textbooks want a straightforward plot line of history and will do a lot to get one, the textbooks are just boring, and are a huge reason why history is consistently rated as the least favorite class among students.