James W. Loewen (1942–2021) was author of Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong, Teac...view moreJames W. Loewen (1942–2021) was author of Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong, Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History, and Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism and coeditor of Mississippi: Conflict and Change and The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The “Great Truth” about the “Lost Cause,” the latter published by University Press of Mississippi. He was also professor emeritus at the University of Vermont.view less