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Book Description Essential reading in our age of fake news and slippery, sloppy history, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers’ Edition cuts through the mindless optimism and outright lies found in most textbooks that are often not even really written by their “authors.” Loewen is, as historian Carol Kammen has said, the history teacher we all …
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Media Stories, Reviews, and Comments aboutLies My Teacher Told Me Surely the most helpful quotation about Lies My Teacher Told Me is this one: “Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book.” — Howard Zinn, author, A People’s History of the United States. Shortly after Lies My Teacher Told Me first …
Resources for Teaching History Creatively Here is a typical table from the US. Census for Indiana. Students may need a little help understanding it, but they can learn a lot from so doing. Help them find the overall population of “Negroes” in Indiana, compared to “Others.” What seems to be happening? Where are the African …
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“I read it cover to cover (including the footnotes), found it hard to put down, and was sad when it ended.” — David Stanton, Clonlara School Home Based Education Program, and editor of Clonlara Resources (for home schooling). “I deal with homeschooling students and allow them to pick whatever materials they wish to use in …
Teaching What Really Happened This book calls K-12 teachers to teach history, civics, and social studies in a new way. It offers specific ideas for how to get students excited about history, how to get them to DO history, and how to help them read critically. It also helps teachers tackle difficult but important topics like …
Owing to what sociologists call “neolocal residence,” there is no geographic or historical mooring for the Loewen family. I chose the cemetery in Mountain Lake, Minnesota, because it’s beautiful, because I do value my Mennonite heritage, and because my parents’ ashes are there. Loewen valued his children, Bruce Nicholas Loewen and Lucy Loewen McMurrer, whom …
Loewen’s Writing Made a Difference Loewen’s books probably have made his biggest influence. Luke Abaffy interviewed Loewen about his writing years ago; the interview tells something about the overall flow of his work. Loewen’s books, including foreign editions, as of 4/2020 The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White Loewen’s first book, The Mississippi Chinese, was …
James Loewen addresses K-12 teachers and undergraduates and grad students at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. (Image Credit: Medgar Evers College, Image Source: Flickr) Using Lies My Teacher Told Me In the college classroom, in graduate seminars, and as a common reading. Using Teaching What Really Happened In various courses in departments or schools of …
In K-12 Schools Using Lies My Teacher Told Me and Teaching What Really Happened Teaching with Lies My Teacher Told Me and Teaching What Really Happened is much more fun than just plugging away at the textbook. Textbook Problems One reason why U.S. history gets liked least is because it is more dominated by the …
History and Social Justice Inspired by James W. Loewen, sociologist, historian, citizen. Telling the truth about the past helps cause justice in the present. Achieving justice in the present helps us tell the truth about the past. James W. Loewen (1942-2021) We mourn the loss of our friend and colleague and remain committed to the …