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Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus: What Your History Books Got Wrong
James W. Loewen
New Press, 1992
Should be a most read for all history students
Everything by the author is well researched, thought provoking, and tells us things we don't want to hear but need to.
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The Mississippi Chinese : Between Black and White, Second Edition
James W. Loewen
Waveland Press, 1988
This scholarly, carefully researched book studies one of the most overlooked minority groups in America--the Chinese of the Mississippi Delta. During Reconstruction, white plantation owners imported Chinese sharecroppers in the hope of replacing their black laborers. In the beginning they were classed with blacks. But the Chinese soon moved ...
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, Revised and Updated Edition
James W. Loewen
New Press, 2008
Read it!!!!!!
This book is so amazing and I recommend it for any person wanting to know some truths about our history. I am a Native American and to read some of Christopher Columbus' journals is appalling. There is an enormous amount of information in this book and as a teacher I ...
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Lies Across America: What American Historic Sites Get Wrong
James W. Loewen
Touchstone, 2007
Take with you on next vacation
This book is a eye opener. It can get a bit boring just reading straight through. My recommendation is take it with you the next time you go on vacation and try to find some of these sites listed in the book.
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Everything You've Been Taught is Wrong (Portable Professor)
James W. Loewen
Barnes and Noble, 2005
COURSE LECTURES
Why Study the Past?
Archaeology and Prehistory
The Politics and History of Columbus
Pilgrims
Native American Societies and Cultures
The Making and Use of the Constitution
Slavery
The Civil War
The Civil War (Continued) and Reconstruction
The Nadir of Race Relations
The Nadir of Race Relations (Continued)
United States Foreign ...
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We Are the People: Voices from the Other Side of American History
Da Capo Press, 2003
We Are the People collects the personal accounts, letters, speeches and other documents that, together, tell the untold story of American history?two centuries of struggle from the perspective of the people. Featuring first-person accounts by numerous forgotten Americans who provide alternative perspectives on critical moments in our history, this ...
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Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
James W. Loewen
Touchstone, 2000
America lies from East to West.
Loewen once again presents historical truth regarding America history that the masses have yet to hear. A must read for everyone.
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Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
James W. Loewen
Touchstone, 2006
Now I Understand.
First off, thank you to Professor Loewen for his painstaking research. Biased or not he backs up his information and makes you think as long as your mind is open and willing to absorb.
I'm an African-American, 37, grew up in a all-black neighborhood, but it ...
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Mississippi: conflict & change
James W Loewen
Pantheon Books, 1974
A textbook which traces the history of Mississippi from prehistoric times until today, covering all areas of social life and concentrating on recent developments, especially the civil rights struggle and the search for social justice.
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Sundown Towns(2005 Softcover) (A Hidden Dimension of American Racism)
James W. Loewen
The New Press, 2005
A thorough expose of the Sundown laws in American history.
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Lies My Teacher Told Me (Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong)
James W. Loewen
The New Press, 1995
This is a non-fiction expose of the half-truths and lies to be found in US American history textbooks.
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Lies My Teacher Told Me [UNABRIDGED] (Audiobook)
Dr. James W. Loewen, 2006
This national best-seller and American Book Award winner is an entertaining, informative, and sometimes shocking expose of the way history is taught to American students. James W. Loewen, a distinguished critic of history education, puts 12 popular textbooks under the microscope. What he finds is a proliferation of blind patriotism, mindless ...
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History Textbook Got Wrong
James W. Loewen
New Press, 2005
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