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James W. Loewen

James W. Loewen
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James W. Loewen

James W. Loewen is the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me and Lies Across America. He is a regular contributor to the History Channel's History magazine and is a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Vermont. He resides in Washington, D.C.

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Meet James Loewen
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Lies My Teacher Told Me will be released on October 16, 2007 in Trade Paperback
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Lies My Teacher Told Me is now available in Trade Paperback
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Lies Across America will be released on October 16, 2007 in Trade Paperback
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Table of Contents from Lies My Teacher Told Me
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Axis of Logic, April 27, 2012
...word) and avoids real origins. Books such as Lies My Teacher Told Me and Lies Across America, by James W. Loewen, can help to re-educate. Wherever you are located, learn something about the various people in your area; those who have been there the...
History News Network, April 11, 2012
...Journal, a site whose motto reads "Nothing but the Truth," The site carries a quote from sociologist James W. Loewen: "People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions not backed...
Rights Action, August 5, 2011
...Galeano's "Open Veins of Latin America"; Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States"; James Loewen's "Lies My Teacher Told Me"; Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine"; Paolo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed"; Dr Seuss's "Horton Hears A Who"...
Blogcritics.org, July 25, 2011
...history books we get throughout our academic career, which I highly recommend (Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen comes to mind). If anything, this novella made me want to read more about the characters involved, and that is always a good thing....
Rights Action, June 12, 2011
...Galeano's "Open Veins of Latin America"; Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States"; James Loewen's "Lies My Teacher Told Me"; Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine"; Paolo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed"; Dr Seuss's "Horton Hears A Who"...
Civil War Memory, September 15, 2011
...that he would not accept an award from the Museum of the Confederacy for his co-edited book with James Loewen, titled The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The “Great Truth” about the “Lost Cause”, which had been submitted by their...
Man of la Book, July 27, 2011
...history books we get throughout our academic career which I highly recommend (“Lies My Teacher Told Me” by James Loewen comes to mind – Amazon ). If anything, this novella made me want to read more about the characters involved and that is always...
All Blogs, July 3, 2011
...by Joe Haldeman. 66. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. 67. Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen. 68. Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. 69. Everybody Poops by Tarō Gomi. 70. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. 71. The...
The Historical Society, June 29, 2011
...developing, about history education, the state of the profession, and writing for the public—I’ve been listening to James Loewen’s lecture series, The Modern Scholar: Rethinking Our Past . Like Lies My Teacher Told Me , (my thoughts on that book...
Jacksonian America: Society, Personality, and Poli, June 1, 2011
...of my first semester as a Ph.D. student at Mississippi State. The e-mail outlines my infatuation with James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me and my plan to improve my teaching. Several things struck me about the e-mail as I read it.  One was the love...