His other books include Mississippi: Conflict and Change (co authored), 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. Depressed at their replies, he recruited a co-editor and published The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader (University Press of Mississippi, 2010), which sets the record straight in Confederates’ own words. The Gustavus Myers Foundation named his book, Sundown Towns, a “Distinguished Book of 2005.” In 2010, Teachers College Press brought out Teaching What Really Happened, intended to give K-12 teachers (and prospective teachers) solutions to the problems pointed out in Loewen’s earlier works.Īs the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War approached, Loewen asked thousands of K-12 teachers in workshops and audiences about its cause(s). Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong came out in 1999.
He now lives in Washington, D.C., continuing his research on how Americans remember their past. Previously he taught at predominantly black Tougaloo College in Mississippi. Jim Loewen taught race relations for twenty years at the University of Vermont. James Loewen’s gripping retelling of American history as it should, and could, be taught, Lies My Teacher Told Me, has sold more than 1,500,000 copies and continues to inspire K-16 teachers to get students to challenge, rather than memorize, their textbooks. Embarrassing Questions about “Standardized” Tests.Loewen’s Work on “Standardized” Testing Used by Others.Using Research Information to Help a Sundown Town Overcome Its Past.How to Research and Teach About Sundown Towns.Alphabetical Map of Sundown Towns by State.Using the Sundown Towns Database Menu Toggle.Civil Rights Movement to Modern Times: c.Teaching Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.Native American Issues, Including the Explorers.On the Landscape, In Public History Menu Toggle.
Useful Quotations about History and Social Justice.
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