James W. Loewen

This national best seller is an entertaining, informative, and sometimes shocking expose of the way history is taught to American students....

Sundown Towns examines thousands of all-white American towns that were - and still are, in some instances - racially exclusive by design. Professor emeritus at the University of Vermont, James W. Loewen won the National Book Award for his New York Times best seller Lies My Teacher Told Me...

"Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in itself." (Howard Zinn) A new edition of the national best seller and American Book Award winner...

Now adapted for young readers ages 12 through 18, the national best seller that makes real American history come alive in all of its conflict, drama, and complexity Lies My Teacher Told Me is one of the most important - and successful - history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million...

A posthumous book by the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, sharing the strategies and secrets of an award-winning, fifty-year career as a college professor.

Most Americans hold basic misconceptions about the Confederacy, the Civil War, and the actions of subsequent neo-Confederates. For example, two thirds of Americans - including most history teachers - think the Confederate States seceded for "states' rights". This error persists because most have...