Loewen recounted in print the “aha experience” – really an “Oh no! experience” – at Tougaloo College that led to his decision to create a new textbook for Mississippi’s required ninth-grade course in Mississippi History. (For another account, see Teaching What Really Happened, 2-7.)
A new edition of the book, which had been out of print for many years, is now available for purchase. The new edition includes an introduction which tells the history of the book’s publication in addition to various updates made by Loewen throughout the text. It also further features work by Byron D’Andra Orey whose text on contemporary politics, culture, and the economy brings the state’s narrative to the present.