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James L. Loewen is a sociologist, senior lecturer, and founder whose best-known work laboratory analysis Lies Downcast Teacher Bass Me: Nonetheless Your Indweller History Casebook Got Wrong, published grind 1995. Put on view has advertise a account 1,500,000 copies.
Loewen taught mercy relations be suspicious of the Academia of Vermont for 20 years previously starting a visiting spot teaching sociology at depiction Catholic Further education college of U.s.a. in 1997.
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James W. Loewen
Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians
James W. Loewen taught race relations for twenty years at the University of Vermont. Previously he taught at predominantly black Tougaloo College in Mississippi. He now lives in Washington, DC, continuing his research on how Americans remember their past, and gives workshops for teacher groups around the United States.
His gripping retelling of American history as it should and could be taught, Lies My Teacher Told Me, has sold more than 1,100,000 copies and continues to inspire K–16 teachers to get students to challenge, rather than memorize, their textbooks. It won the American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship. Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong came out in 1999. The Gustavus Myers Foundation named his new book, Sundown Towns, a “Distinguished Book of 2005.”
His other books include Mississippi: Conflict and Change (coauthored), which won the Lillian Smith Award for Best Southern Nonfiction but was rejected for public school text use by the State of Mississippi, leading to the path-breaking First Amendment lawsuit, Loewen et al. v. Turnipseed et al. He also wrote The Mississippi Chinese: Between • Jessica Rucker and James Loewen at Busboys and Poets, June, 2019. Lies My Teacher Told Me has served as an equity lighthouse guiding me through an ocean of historical myth and amnesia. — Jessica Rucker I read Lies My Teacher Told Me the summer between middle and high school. It’s the number one reason I became a high school social studies teacher. — Tierra Jolly Howard Zinn’sA People’s History of the United States made me want to be a history teacher and James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me gave me the drive to want to teach beyond the classic textbook-driven curriculum. Loewen’s work has profoundly affected my teaching practice by cementing the commitment to instructing students to question and inquire as they ‘do’ history. — Maureen Andreadis Sociologist, author, and educator James W. Loewen died on August 19, 2021, at the age of 79. We will miss his scholarship, wit, and dedication to ensuring that history be taught accurately. As he said, “Telling the truth about the past helps cause justice in the present.” Jim Lowen’s work has touched countless readers. When we posted a notice of his passing on Facebook, testimonials poured in. I’ve learned more in the last 20 years, and by reading James Loewen’s bo James Loewen ¡Presente!