James W Loewen: 6 books

Book cover of Lies My Teacher Told Me

Lies My Teacher Told Me

Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

by James W. Loewen
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018

“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 bestseller and American Book Award...
Book cover of Teaching What Really Happened

Teaching What Really Happened

How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History

by James W. Loewen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

James Loewen has revised Teaching What Really Happened, the bestselling, go-to resource for social studies and history teachers wishing to break away from standard textbook retellings of the past. In addition to updating the scholarship and anecdotes throughout, the second edition features a timely...
Book cover of Lies Across America

Lies Across America

What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong

by James W. Loewen
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010

A fully updated and revised edition of the book USA Today called “jim-dandy pop history,” by the bestselling, American Book Award–winning author From the author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, a completely updated—and more timely than ever—version of the myth-busting...
Book cover of White Men Challenging Racism

White Men Challenging Racism

35 Personal Stories

by James W. Loewen
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2003

White Men Challenging Racism is a collection of first-person narratives chronicling the compelling experiences of thirty-five white men whose efforts to combat racism and fight for social justice are central to their lives. Based on interviews conducted by Cooper Thompson, Emmett Schaefer, and Harry...
Book cover of Sundown Towns

Sundown Towns

A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

by James W. Loewen
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018

Sales of S&S paperback edition: The New Press has taken paperback rights back from S&S, who sold over fifteen thousand copies. New Preface: Updates the conversation in light of the Trump presidency and the re-remembering of slavery and the civil war that the national reckoning with...
Book cover of The Problem of Evil

The Problem of Evil

New Philosophical Directions

by Hugo Strandberg, Jennifer Mei Sze Ang, A. G. Holdier
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015

This book engages the problem of evil from a variety of philosophical viewpoints, traditions, methodologies, and interests. For millennia, philosophers, theologians, and people outside of the academy have thought about evil and its relation to religious belief. The Problem of Evil: New Philosophical...
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