![]() ![]() Read more.įind more books and articles by James Loewen below. He 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. He also wrote Teaching What Really Happened and The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White and edited The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader. Loewen was 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 Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers’ Edition (all from The New Press). ![]() Tanya Lee Stone, NAACP Image Award winner and Sibert medalist Loewen’s Lies tells the truth to young readers, creating a new crop of critical thinkers and active citizens. True stories - otherwise known as history - need to be told transparently, in all their messy, marvelous, multi-faceted glory. He is a regular contributor to the History Channel's History magazine and is a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Vermont. ![]() Loewen not only critiques textbooks, he also introduces the history as it should be told regarding key events, people, and time periods such as pre-Columbian history, Reconstruction, President Wilson, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, the My Lai massacre, 9/11, and the Iraq War. Loewen is the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me and Lies Across America. history textbooks, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong , is also available in a young readers’ edition. ![]()
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