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James W. Loewen Quotes

1942–2021 United States

James W. "Jim" Loewen (February 6, 1942 – August 19, 2021) was an American sociologist, historian, and author.

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Lee's troops seized scores of free black people in Maryland and Pennsylvania and sent them south into slavery.

Lies Across America: What American Historic Sites Get Wrong (1999)

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (1995)

If knowledge is power, ignorance cannot be bliss.

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (1995)

Americans, 150 years after the Civil War began, are still getting it wrong.

Getting the Civil War Right (2011)

Emotion is the glue that causes history to stick.

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (1995)

In the nineteenth century, the Democratic Party was the party of overt white supremacy and even called itself 'The White Man's Party' into the 1920s.

How Two Historians Responded To Racism In Mississippi (2014)

White Democrats opposed Reconstruction not because it was a failure, but because it was working. Today almost all historians of Reconstruction hold that view.

How Two Historians Responded To Racism In Mississippi (2014)

John Brown knew the masters secretly feared their slaves might revolt, even as they assured abolitionists that slaves really liked slavery. One reason his Harpers Ferry raid prompted such an outcry in the South was that slave owners feared their slaves might join him.

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (1995)

In the twentieth century no one's hands were clean. Korean troops committed more atrocities per capita than Americans, in Vietnam. Vietnam of course attacked Cambodia. Japan attacked almost everyone. And so on.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James W. Loewen (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.