If I had no constraints from my school, this is how I would teach a 11th Grade U.S. History. Even though James Lowen's Lies My Teacher Told Me has repudiated many standard practices in U.S. History textbooks, almost nothing has changed in how these are written and used in schools. This no-textbook alternative invites students to engage critically with the primary texts themselves, using college-level secondary sources as supplementary tools to aid students' critical reasoning. The course is pac