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James W. Loewen

Born

in Decatur, Illinois, The United States

February 06, 1942

Died

August 19, 2021

Website

https://sundown.tougaloo.edu/

Genre

History, Nonfiction

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A professor of sociology, James W. Loewen earned his bachelor's degree at Carleton College in 1964, and his master's (1967) and doctorate (1968) degrees from Harvard University. Loewen taught at Touglaloo College from 1968 until 1975, and at the University of Vermont from 1975 until his retirement as professor emeritus in 1995. ...more

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Taking 9/11/2001 Seriously on 9/11/2011

Living in Washington, D.C., I attended three civic remembrances on September 11, 2011. The first was held at "Freedom Plaza," a triangular paved space on Pennsylvania Avenue midway between the Capitol and the White House. The premiere D.C. remembrance event, it featured the mayor, D.C.'s non-voting "congresswoman" Eleanor Holmes Norton, and other officials. The second took place in the Kogod Co

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Average rating: 3.99 · 81,826 ratings · 5,143 reviews · 29 distinct works • Similar authors

	Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong 3.97 avg rating — 74,669 ratings — published 1995 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,148 ratings — published 1999 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism 4.29 avg rating — 2,001 ratings — published 2005 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History 4.24 avg rating — 587 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Graphic Adaptation by James W. Loewen, Nate Powell (Adaptation) 4.31 avg rating — 523 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus: What Your History Books Got Wrong 3.97 avg rating — 287 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" About the “Lost Cause" by James W. Loewen (Editor), Edward H. Sebesta (Editor) 4.32 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2010 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rethinking Our Past: Recognizing Facts, Fictions, And Lies In American History 4.11 avg rating — 180 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White by James W. Loewen, Robert Coles (Preface by) 3.81 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1971 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everything You've Been Taught is Wrong 3.86 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

tags: history, honesty, inclusion, inclusivity

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“Many African societies divide humans into three categories: those still alive on the earth, the sasha, and the zamani. The recently departed whose time on earth overlapped with people still here are the sasha, the living-dead. They are not wholly dead, for they still live in the memories of the living, who can call them to mind, create their likeness in art, and bring them to life in anecdote. When the last person to know an ancestor dies, that ancestor leaves the sasha for the zamani, the dead. As generalised ancestors, the zamani are not forgotten but revered. Many … can be recalled by name. But they are not the living-dead. There is a difference.”
― James W Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

tags: ancestors, death-and-dying, ghosts, lies-my-teacher-told-me, spirits

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“In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent.”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

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