James W. Loewen (1942–2021)
Auteur van Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong {revised & updated}
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Social scientist and professor James Loewen is an outspoken critic of "feel-good" history. In his book "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American Textbook Got Wrong" (1996) he debunks the myths and exposes the omissions he feels are taught in the nation's high schools. Disturbed by his toon meer college students' lack of knowledge of history and concerned about minority misconceptions, Loewen spent two years at the Smithsonian analyzing 12 leading history texts and 11 years writing this best-selling indictment of history teaching. Loewen believes that controversy has been removed from classrooms in favor of blind patriotism. "Any history book that celebrates, rather than examines, our heritage has the by-product, intended or not, of alienating all those in the 'out group', those who have not become affluent, and denies them a tool for understanding their own group's lack of success." Loewen's other books include ""Mississippi: Conflict and Change" (1974, rev. 1980), a revisionist history of the state written with a coalition of students and faculty at Tougaloo College, Mississippi; "Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White" (1971), a study of this minority's role in society; "Social Science in the Courtroom" (1983), based on the author's experiences as an expert witness in civil rights cases and "The Truth About Columbus: A Subversively True Poster Book For A Dubiously Celebratory Occasion" (1992). In addition, the author is a frequent contributor to professional publications, sometimes under the pseudonym James Lyons. James W. Loewen was born February 6, 1942 in Decatur, Illinois and was educated at Carleton College (B.A., 1964) and Harvard University (M.A, 1967; Ph.D., 1968). He was a sociologist and teacher specializing in race relations at Tougaloo College, Mississippi from 1968 to 1974. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Werken van James W. Loewen
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong {revised & updated} (2007) — Auteur — 6,330 exemplaren
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong {original edition} (1995) — Auteur — 702 exemplaren
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong {new 2018 edition} (2018) — Auteur — 526 exemplaren
Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus: What Your History Books Got Wrong (1992) 165 exemplaren
Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks & Get Students Excited About Doing History (2009) 140 exemplaren
The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" about the "Lost Cause" (2010) — Redacteur — 80 exemplaren
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- Gangbare naam
- Loewen, James W.
- Officiële naam
- Loewen, James William
- Geboortedatum
- 1942-02-06
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2021-08-19
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Decatur, Illinois, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Bethesda, Maryland, USA
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- cancer (bladder)
- Woonplaatsen
- Decatur, Illinois, USA
Tougaloo, Mississippi, USA
Burlington, Vermont, USA
Washington, D.C., USA - Opleiding
- Carleton College (BA|1964)
Harvard University (MA|1967|Ph.D|1968 ∙ Sociology) - Beroepen
- professor
historian
sociologist - Organisaties
- Tougaloo College
University of Vermont
Catholic University of America
American Sociological Association
Organization of American Historians
National Association for Multicultural Education (toon alle 7)
American Association for State and Local History - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Spirit of America Award, National Council for the Social Studies (2012)
Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award, American Sociological Association (2012)
Lillian Smith Book Award for Best Southern Nonfiction (1976) - Korte biografie
- James William Loewen is an American sociologist, historian, and author, who is best known for his 1995 book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, which was republished in 2008, and then again in 2018.
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