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. 

Sep 3, 2015

The Monument to White Power that Still Stands in New Orleans

by Jim Loewen

Sep 1, 2015

The Tallest Mountain – The Silliest Naming – Reversed on August 31, 2015

by Jim Loewen

Aug 31, 2015

Another Comic Strip Imitates (My) Life

by Jim Loewen

Aug 22, 2015

Doonesbury as Documentary: Or, Comic Strip Imitates Life

by Jim Loewen

Jul 31, 2015

Time to De-Confederatize the Textbook, "The American Journey": An Open Letter to James McPherson

by Jim Loewen

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

Jul 23, 2015

Celebrating John C. Calhoun in Minnesota!

by Jim Loewen

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

Jul 14, 2015

What should Charleston do with John C. Calhoun?

by Jim Loewen

Jul 9, 2015

It's Time to De-Confederatize "The American Pageant": An Open Letter to David Kennedy

by Jim Loewen

Jul 1, 2015

Why Do People Believe Myths about the Confederacy? Because Our Textbooks and Monuments Are Wrong.

by Jim Loewen

May 25, 2015

What Do You Do When a Review Is Dishonest?

by Jim Loewen

May 19, 2015

Wrong and Racist at Duke

by Jim Loewen

May 12, 2015

The Vietnam War Revisioned by Those Who Opposed It

by Jim Loewen

May 6, 2015

Then Verne Gagne Moved!

by Jim Loewen

Mar 20, 2015

Acknowledging History to Right a Wrong

by Jim Loewen

Mar 18, 2015

Lincoln's Second Inaugural on Its 150th Birthday

by Jim Loewen

Feb 16, 2015

How 20th Century: Going to the Library to Get a Book

by Jim Loewen

Jan 1, 2015

Windshield Pockmarks and Police Behavior

by Jim Loewen

Dec 7, 2014

How Two Historians Responded to Racism in Mississippi

by Jim Loewen