![]() ![]() ![]() He’s currently working on a new book, Surprises on the Landscape: Unexpected Places That Get History Right. ![]() He’s continued to expand on Lies since the 90s, adding additional chapters, and has also authored or co-authored books on the history of race and racism in America. Updated editions were issued in 2005, 20 by the New Press, which has called the book its all-time best seller, accounting for the bulk of almost two million Loewen books sold. ![]() He was best known for his 1995 book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. When the book was published in 1995, it caused a stir, and made Loewen a minor celebrity. James William Loewen (Febru August 19, 2021) was an American sociologist, historian, and author. In 1974, he wrote a history textbook called Mississippi: Conflict and Change, and successfully sued the Mississippi school board after it refused to accept the textbook for classroom use because it was too “controversial.” Loewen spent two years writing Lies My Teacher Told Me, studying dozens of history textbooks at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Loewen earned a PhD in sociology from Harvard University studying Chinese Americans in Mississippi, and afterwards went to teach at Mississippi’s historically black Tougaloo College. As a junior, he spent a semester in Mississippi, an experience that inspired him to question the way that history textbooks perpetuate various forms of bias. James Loewen grew up in Illinois and attended Carleton College. ![]()
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