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 Readers (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 Readers (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