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James W. Loewen has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United…
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Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.
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Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.
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Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from…
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People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions…
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As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have…
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Conclusions are not always pleasant.
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The idea that we would operate and amputate healthy tissue from a baby, from an unconsenting minor, to supposedly prevent some hypothetical…
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Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.
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Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy…
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It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit... No one likes to think of…
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In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither…
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If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.
— James Buchan
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Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
— Ken Burns
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Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The Gospel is ‘Good News’, not ‘Good History’, because when it’s preached, it happens.
— Reinhard Bonnke
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History is life; he who has not lived, or has lived only enough to write a doctoral dissertation, is too inexperienced with…
— Louis Moreau Gottschalk
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For almost half a century, Fermilab has occupied center stage as physicists have sought to understand the fundamental structure of the universe.…
— James Trefil
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Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the…
— C. V. Wedgwood
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A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history…
— Benjamin Hooks
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The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.
— James W. Loewen
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My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
— Thomas Hardy
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War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading
— Thomas Hardy
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