James W. Loewen

Lies My Teacher Told Me (1996)

UPDATE: After reading the first 150 pages, now I just sorta have this book on my shelf and pick it up from time to time.This book is very good on a few levels ... It takes the textbook publishers to task for their weak glossing over of American history, and it emphasizes the use of primary docume...

Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism (2006)

This reviewer was born in Chicago – long known as one of the most racially segregated big cities in America -- and grew up in a sundown town – a working-class, industrial suburb west of Chicago. It was understood that no African-Americans were allowed to live in Franklin Park, even though hundre...

Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus: What Your History Books Got Wrong (1992)