We mourn the loss of our friend and colleague and remain committed to the work he began.
Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong Lies My Teacher Told Me shows how Americans get a distorted understanding of their past in their high school years. Unfortunately, when they leave school, their miseducation continues. Lies Across America: What Our Historic Markers and Monuments Get Wrong shows how our shrines of public history suffer from similar …
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. Jim Loewen taught race relations for twenty years at the University of Vermont. Previously he …
Readers and Critics Respond to Lies Across America “A great book, a fun book, and an important book.”– Ira Berlin, Department of History, University of Maryland Responding to a question on the Public History Discussion List:“Can anyone suggest recent studies that document the cultural or social value of … historic sites, museums, and similar activities?” …
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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 …
Native American Issues, Including the Explorers Until the 2004 opening of the National Museum of the American Indian on the Mall in Washington, D.C., most Americans had nowhere to go to get an accurate history of Native Americans. In 2003, NMAI commissioned a paper from Loewen to provide them an overview of Native American/European American …
Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong Loewen compiled his broadest analyses of what we get wrong in our public history – our monuments, museums, and historical markers; the historical names we give to public places, buildings, and streets; the people we celebrate by naming mountains, streams, and lakes for them; and the …
James W. Loewen Loewen is proudest of his contributions to American society in five areas: his children, who he thinks are forces for good; his physical impact on the landscape, mostly in the form of housing he built and trees he planted; his writings; his direct efforts at social change; and his deployment of money …
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 …
Why Did You Create This Special Version of the Book for Kids? Young people have been reading the original Lies for years, it’s true. But even some college students have complained that some words and sentences are too long. This version is meant to make it easier than ever for people of any age to read it …
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Jim Loewen gives hilarious and gripping talks on topics related to Lies My Teacher Told Me and Lies Across America, how to teach history/social studies better, and Sundown Towns. He is also experienced at leading workshops for in-service teachers, students in schools of education, and staff at historic sites. To have Jim Loewen speak at your community forum, …