James W Loewen

James W. Loewen (1942-2021) was the bestselling and award-winning author of Lies My Teacher Told Me , Lies Across America , Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus , Sundown Towns , and Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers' Edition (all from The New Press). He also wrote Teaching What Really Happened and The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White and edited The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader . He won the American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for...See more

James W. Loewen (1942-2021) was the bestselling and award-winning author of Lies My Teacher Told Me , Lies Across America , Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus , Sundown Towns , and Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers' Edition (all from The New Press). He also wrote Teaching What Really Happened and The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White and edited The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader . He won the American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, the Spirit of America Award from the National Council for the Social Studies, and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award. See less