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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