James W Loewen
James W. Loewen is the bestselling and award-winning author of Lies My Teacher Told Me , Lies Across America , Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus , Sundown Towns , and the forthcoming Lies My Teacher Told Me for Young People (all from The New Press). He also wrote Teaching What Really Happened and The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White and edited The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader . He has won the American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for...See more
James W. Loewen is the bestselling and award-winning author of Lies My Teacher Told Me , Lies Across America , Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus , Sundown Towns , and the forthcoming Lies My Teacher Told Me for Young People (all from The New Press). He also wrote Teaching What Really Happened and The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White and edited The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader . He has won the American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, the Spirit of America Award from the National Council for the Social Studies, and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award. Loewen is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Vermont and lives in Washington, DC. See less
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Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
nice addition
by Zep, Feb 4, 2013
Well documented much needed addition to any history book or history class; a nice addendum to Chomsky! Read More
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
A real education
by Zep, Feb 1, 2013
Significant research detailing the errors found in conventional history books and courses. A wonderful companion to works of Chomsky! Read More
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Lies My Teacher Told Me
Sociology or History?
by Jody T, Sep 4, 2011
This author has dredged up his own slant on history. More a study in sociology than a historical chronicle, he laments the size of history books but wants to insert another 200 pages to explain how ... Read More