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.
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Sep 1, 2015
The Tallest Mountain – The Silliest Naming – Reversed on August 31, 2015
by Jim Loewen
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Aug 31, 2015
Another Comic Strip Imitates (My) Life
by Jim Loewen
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Aug 22, 2015
Doonesbury as Documentary: Or, Comic Strip Imitates Life
by Jim Loewen
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Jul 31, 2015
Time to De-Confederatize the Textbook, "The American Journey": An Open Letter to James McPherson
by Jim Loewen
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Jul 29, 2015
On the Amazing Similarity Between the New Texas Textbook Standards and the Textbook, "The Americans": An Open Letter to Gerald A. Danzer
by Jim Loewen
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Jul 23, 2015
Celebrating John C. Calhoun in Minnesota!
by Jim Loewen
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Jul 19, 2015
What Does Rockville, Maryland's Confederate Monument Tell Us About the Civil War? About the Nadir? About the Present?
by Jim Loewen
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Jul 14, 2015
What should Charleston do with John C. Calhoun?
by Jim Loewen
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Jul 9, 2015
It's Time to De-Confederatize "The American Pageant": An Open Letter to David Kennedy
by Jim Loewen
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Jul 1, 2015
Why Do People Believe Myths about the Confederacy? Because Our Textbooks and Monuments Are Wrong.
by Jim Loewen
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May 25, 2015
What Do You Do When a Review Is Dishonest?
by Jim Loewen
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May 19, 2015
Wrong and Racist at Duke
by Jim Loewen
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May 12, 2015
The Vietnam War Revisioned by Those Who Opposed It
by Jim Loewen
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May 6, 2015
Then Verne Gagne Moved!
by Jim Loewen
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Mar 20, 2015
Acknowledging History to Right a Wrong
by Jim Loewen
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Mar 18, 2015
Lincoln's Second Inaugural on Its 150th Birthday
by Jim Loewen
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Feb 16, 2015
How 20th Century: Going to the Library to Get a Book
by Jim Loewen
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Dec 31, 2014
Windshield Pockmarks and Police Behavior
by Jim Loewen
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Dec 7, 2014
How Two Historians Responded to Racism in Mississippi
by Jim Loewen
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Nov 18, 2014
Here We Go Again: Tests for the Common Core May Be Unfair to Some and Boring To All
by Jim Loewen
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