James W. Loewen

Many Americans have never owned a book. And others have never owned a non-fiction book. Providing them with a 300-page paperback would…

— James W. Loewen

Textbooks pretty much have no real drama. They have no real storyline. To the extent they have a storyline.

— James W. Loewen

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

Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.

— James W. Loewen

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

Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy…

— James W. Loewen

As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have…

— James W. Loewen

I think the first important thing is that usually most textbooks are not written by their authors. And so by author I…

— James W. Loewen

Teachers need to teach the subject rather than to teach the textbook.

— James W. Loewen

“No matter how thoroughly Native Americans acculturated, they could not succeed in white society. Whites would not let them. "Indians were always…

— James W. Loewen

“We seem to feel that a person like Helen Keller can be an inspiration only so long as she remains uncontroversial, one-dimensional.…

— James W. Loewen

Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights…

— James W. Loewen

Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

— James W. Loewen

“Students exit history textbooks without having developed the ability to think coherently about social life. Even”

— James W. Loewen

History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you.

— James W. Loewen

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

“Consider how textbooks treat Native religions as a unitary whole. ... "These Native Americans ... believed that nature was filled with spirits.…

— James W. Loewen

All of the common core standards stuff about critical reading and critical thinking and so on can only be positive.

— James W. Loewen

So long as our textbooks hide from us the roles that people of color have played in exploration, from at least 6000…

— James W. Loewen

“The textbooks also fail to show how the continuous Indian wars have reverberated through our culture. Carleton Beals has written that "our…

— James W. Loewen

“On Ho Chi Minh's desk in Hanoi on the day he died lay a biography of John Brown.”

— James W. Loewen

The world, of course, doesn't come divided into disciplines. The world just is.

— James W. Loewen

I'm looking forward to the future, which is a good thing, because it's coming.

— James W. Loewen

Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United…

— James W. Loewen

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

— James W. Loewen