James W. Loewen (1942–2021) was author of Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong, Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, and Mississippi: Conflict and Change. He was also professor emeritus at the University of Vermont.
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