Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
I often suggest in workshops that if you have 30 students in your American History course in 11th grade, or whatever grade… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“Students exit history textbooks without having developed the ability to think coherently about social life. Even” — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
We still have to realize that if you are say a historian of the Civil War, you don’t know anything special about… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“history textbooks need to disabuse students of the flat-earth myth.” — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“Another result of the War of 1812 was the loss of part of our history. As historian Bruce Johansen put it, "A… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“Merely being part of the United States, without regard to our own acts and ideas, does not make us moral or immoral… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“History textbooks still present Union and Confederate sympathizers as equally idealistic. The North fought to hold the Union together, while the South… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Very few college professors want high school graduates in their history class who are simply "gung ho" and "rah-rah" with regard to… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Many Americans have never owned a book. And others have never owned a non-fiction book. Providing them with a 300-page paperback would get them… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Textbooks pretty much have no real drama. They have no real storyline. To the extent they have a storyline. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained along a… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
I often suggest in workshops that if you have 30 students in your American History course in 11th grade, or whatever grade level, that… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have committed mass… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
I think the first important thing is that usually most textbooks are not written by their authors. And so by author I mean the… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Teachers need to teach the subject rather than to teach the textbook. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“No matter how thoroughly Native Americans acculturated, they could not succeed in white society. Whites would not let them. "Indians were always regarded as… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“We seem to feel that a person like Helen Keller can be an inspiration only so long as she remains uncontroversial, one-dimensional. We don't… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights in the… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
