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Jim Loewen

James W. Loewen is a sociologist.  The New Press has just brought out new paperbacks of Loewen's bestseller, Lies My Teacher Told Me, and Sundown Towns, about places that were/are all-white on purpose. 

  • May 15, 2020

    Tax Protesting on the Cheap

    by Jim Loewen

    Leaving certain federal taxes unpaid was a common but poorly remembered form of protest against the U.S. war in Vietnam.

  • Mar 12, 2019

    Mennonite Values

    by Jim Loewen

    "At the end of my life, I publish these lines thinking that they may come to be meaningful to you."

  • Nov 20, 2018

    Censorship at Amazon

    by Jim Loewen

    What happened when Jim Loewen posted a comment on a neo-Confederate pamphlet sold on Amazon.

  • Feb 27, 2018

    Farewell to the U.S. History Textbook?

    by Jim Loewen

    Pearson is selling its K-12 division. Good riddance! Pearson lists as authors famous historians who didn't write "their" textbooks, never knew who did, and didn't even bother to read them.
  • Oct 18, 2017

    Books, Blacks, and Bigots

    by Jim Loewen

    The baseless claim that African Americans are anti-intellectual hurts race relations, as does the assertion that "they" are stupider than "us."