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Rethinking Our Past
Written by James W. Loewen
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An esteemed academic for over 20 years, Dr. James W. Loewen also penned the New York Times best-seller Lies My Teacher Told Me. Through this enlightening lecture series, Dr. Loewen roots out many historical inaccuracies that are still taught to children today.
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James W. Loewen
James W. Loewen (1942–2021) was author of Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong, Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, and Mississippi: Conflict and Change. He was also professor emeritus at the University of Vermont.
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