“By idolizing those whom we honor, we do a disservice both to them and to ourselves. . . . We fail to recognize that we could go and do likewise. —CHARLES V. WILLIE” — 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
Textbooks pretty much have no real drama. They have no real storyline. To the extent they have a storyline. — James W. Loewen Copy Share
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
Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history. — James W. Loewen Copy Share
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them. — James W. Loewen Copy Share
“Students exit history textbooks without having developed the ability to think coherently about social life. Even” — James W. Loewen Copy Share
