Book Quote by 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 get them…

— 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 along a…

— 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 level, that…

— 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 to catch…

— 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 committed mass…

— 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 mean the…

— 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 regarded as…

— 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. We don't…

— 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 in the…

— James W. Loewen