Books
Loewen has written the following books:
- The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971; second edition, Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press 1988
- Mississippi: Conflict and Change (co-authored with Charles Sallis), New York: Pantheon Books, 1974
- Social Science in the Courtroom, Lexington: D.C. Heath and Company, 1982
- The Truth About Columbus 1989; second edition as Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus, paperback, 2006
- Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong, New York: The New Press, 1995
- Lies Across America: What Our Historic Markers and Monuments Get Wrong, New York: The New Press, 1999
- Sundown Towns, New York: The New Press, 2005
- Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong, New York: The New Press, 2007
- Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History, New York: Teachers College Press, 2010
- The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The Great Truth about the Lost Cause (co-edited with Edward H. Sebesta), Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2010
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Famous quotes containing the word books:
“Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.”
—Peregrine, Sir Worsthorne (b. 1923)
“Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.”
—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)
“I loved reading, and had a great desire of attaining knowledge; but whenever I asked questions of any kind whatsoever, I was always told, “such things were not proper for girls of my age to know.”... For “Miss must not enquire too far into things, it would turn her brain; she had better mind her needlework, and such things as were useful for women; reading and poring on books would never get me a husband.””
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)