Lies, Half-Truths, and More Lies: The Truth Behind 250 "Facts" You Learned in School (and Elsewhere)

History is replete with stories of great people and extraordinary events that either never happened or didn’t happen the way we were told they did. Such news or embellishment thereof are part of what we consider common knowledge – information taught in schools and passed down to us. And they are wrong. How about these gems:

• The winter of 1777-78 was the coldest winter in Valley Forge in years, and many Continental soldiers died from the sub-zero weather: LIE


• Mohandas Gandhi held a lifelong ...