James W. Loewen

Winner, Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award

James W. Loewen (1942–2021) was the bestselling and award-winning author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, Lies Across America, Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus, Sundown Towns, and Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers’ Edition (all from The New Press). He also wrote Teaching What Really Happened and The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White and edited The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader. He won the American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, the Spirit of America Award from the National Council for the Social Studies, and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award.

News and Reviews

Reader’s Guide

For book clubs, classrooms, and other group discussions, check out our Reading Group Guide.

Rethinking Schools

“[The book] not only imparts vital history left out of textbooks, it also prepares the next generation to be critical readers of the media."

Lies My Teacher Told Me Reader's Guide

The New Press is pleased to share a Reading Group Guide for Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen.

Alternet

Read an excerpt from James W. Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus on Alternet.

Pages

Books by James W. Loewen

Lies Across America
What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong

James W. Loewen

Lies My Teacher Told Me
Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

James W. Loewen

Lies My Teacher Told Me
A Graphic Adaptation

James W. Loewen, Nate Powell

Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus
What Your History Books Got Wrong

James W. Loewen

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers’ Edition
Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong

James W. Loewen

Sundown Towns
A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

James W. Loewen