James W. Loewen

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James Loewen taught race relations for 20 years at the University of Vermont; prior to that he taught at Tougaloo College in Mississippi. James W. Loewen is the author of several books, including Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism and The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The “Great Truth” about the “Lost Cause.”


Pages authored by James W. Loewen

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Getting the Civil War Right William Faulkner famously wrote, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” He would not be surprised to learn that Americans, 150 years after the...
Does My Town Have a Racist Past? In 1999, I started researching sundown towns. These are overwhelmingly white communities that for decades stayed that way on purpose. The term...
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Against the Grain Recently I spent two years at the Smithsonian Institution surveying 12 popular American history textbooks, learning how teachers use them and...