Jim Loewen

Sociologist James W. Loewen is the author of Lies My Teacher Told Me.

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  Aug 3, 2017 7:43 am
  

  My Lynching Photo Problem, and Ours

  by James W Loewen

  The first textbook in the USA to feature a photo of a lynching was mine in 1974. But there was a problem. 
  

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  Jun 30, 2017 10:14 am
  

  On Dealing with Serious Problems

  by James W Loewen

  What pieces of music reach you deeply?  Bruckner's Eighth reaches me.
  

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  Jun 20, 2017 6:38 am
  

  My Cheating Memoirs #3: Ladysmith Black Mambazo Plays Vermont

  by James W Loewen

  The students claimed they'd watched the performance.  They hadn't.  They'd lied. 
  

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  Jun 15, 2017 5:30 am
  

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

  by James W Loewen

  You remember the 4 stages, right?  Oil, annual, psychosexual, and nonmanual.
  

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  Jun 9, 2017 8:17 am
  

  My Cheating Memoirs #1: Harvard, 1966

  by James W Loewen

  The first in a series of droll reminiscences.
  

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  May 9, 2017 1:30 pm
  

  Slandering Native Americans this Spring

  by James W Loewen

  Once again Native Americans are being made to look like fools for supposedly selling Manhattan for $24. It's outrageous.
  

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  May 4, 2017 3:25 pm
  

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

  by James W Loewen

  Getting the Civil War wrong was part of the program of white supremacy during the Nadir. Today, getting it right is not just Trump’s responsibility — it’s all of ours.
  

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  Mar 22, 2017 3:32 pm
  

  Rockville’s Confederate Monument Belongs at White’s Ferry

  by James W Loewen

  The monument was false to Maryland's history. 
  

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  Feb 28, 2017 1:27 pm
  

  James Loewen discusses Confederate monuments and memorials

  by James W Loewen

  “Confederate Monuments: Modest Proposals” was part of the American Civil War Museum’s 2017 annual symposium, “Lightning Rods of Controversy: Civil War Monuments Past, Present, and Future.”
  

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  Feb 16, 2017 4:12 pm
  

  It's Time for a Shadow Cabinet

  by James W Loewen

  The United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries have Shadow Cabinets. We need one. Now.
  

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  Jan 11, 2017 5:19 pm
  

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

  by James W Loewen

  We still have to win, in 2017, the victories won in Mississippi more than 40 years ago.
  

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  Nov 7, 2016 3:40 pm
  

  Should Students Call Professors by Their First Name?

  by James W Loewen

  How race affects even this decision.
  

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  Aug 30, 2016 7:44 am
  

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

  by James W Loewen

  Color-blind policing doesn’t work.
  

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  Jul 18, 2016 6:07 am
  

  Future Shock and History

  by James W Loewen

  From the late Alvin Toffler historians can learn a lesson:  Their work should take the future into account. 
  

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  Jun 20, 2016 4:31 am
  

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

  by James W Loewen

  It is white history to think for a moment that it is.
  

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  May 23, 2016 2:44 pm
  

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

  by James W Loewen

  They may be out of sight.  They shouldn't be out of mind.  A case in point.
  

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  May 10, 2016 1:49 am
  

  Ten Questions for Yale President Peter Salovey

  by James W Loewen

  Every year that it retains the name Calhoun College, Yale declares on its campus that John C. Calhoun was a hero worthy of the honor of having a building named for him.
  

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  Feb 25, 2016 4:19 pm
  

  Lies the Neo-Confederates Told Me

  by James W Loewen

  He who steals my book title for this travesty besmirches my good name.
  

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  Jan 29, 2016 6:25 pm
  

  Reconstruction: The Sixth Myth

  by James W Loewen

  This is the Reconstruction myth the Washington Post wouldn't let me debunk on the grounds no one believed it. Then Hillary showed she did!
  

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  Jan 7, 2016 10:04 pm
  

  The Stethoscope as Synecdoche

  by James W Loewen

  The real purpose behind that celebrated shiny instrument doctors wear around their necks like a talisman.