Jim Loewen

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

Jun 20, 2017

My Cheating Memoirs #3: Ladysmith Black Mambazo Plays Vermont

by Jim Loewen

Jun 15, 2017

My Cheating Memoirs #2: Freud's Four Stages of Sexuality in Mississippi

by Jim Loewen

Jun 9, 2017

My Cheating Memoirs #1: Harvard, 1966

by Jim Loewen

May 9, 2017

Slandering Native Americans this Spring

by Jim Loewen

May 4, 2017

"Why Was There the Civil War?" Here’s Your Answer.

by Jim Loewen

Mar 22, 2017

Rockville’s Confederate Monument Belongs at White’s Ferry

by Jim Loewen

Feb 28, 2017

James Loewen discusses Confederate monuments and memorials

by Jim Loewen

Feb 16, 2017

It's Time for a Shadow Cabinet

by Jim Loewen

Jan 11, 2017

How Is It Still Possible for a Jury in South Carolina to Have Just One Black Member?

by Jim Loewen

Nov 7, 2016

Should Students Call Professors by Their First Name?

by Jim Loewen

Aug 30, 2016

Lessons from Mississippi for Police in Ferguson, Chicago, Baltimore, Milwaukee …

by Jim Loewen

Jul 18, 2016

Future Shock and History

by Jim Loewen

Jun 20, 2016

Orlando Was Not “The Worst Mass Shooting in U.S. History”

by Jim Loewen

May 23, 2016

Tip for Journalists and Historians: When You Don't See Blacks in a Community Ask Why

by Jim Loewen

May 10, 2016

Ten Questions for Yale President Peter Salovey

by Jim Loewen

Feb 25, 2016

Lies the Neo-Confederates Told Me

by Jim Loewen

Jan 29, 2016

Reconstruction: The Sixth Myth

by Jim Loewen

Jan 8, 2016

The Stethoscope as Synecdoche

by Jim Loewen

Dec 8, 2015

BLM and Me

by Jim Loewen

Nov 23, 2015

Once More, A Comic Strip Imitates (My) Life

by Jim Loewen