James W. Loewen
| James W. Loewen | |
|---|---|
| Born |
James William Loewen February 6, 1942 Decatur, Illinois, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Jim Loewen, James Loewen |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University (PhD) MacArthur High School (1960) |
| Occupation | Historian, author, sociologist |
| Organization |
University of Vermont The Catholic University of America |
| Known for | Lies My Teacher Told Me (1995) |
| Relatives | Winifred Loewen (mother) David F. Loewen (father) |
| Website | uvm |
James William Loewen (born February 6, 1942) is an American sociologist, historian, and author, best known for his 1995 book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, which was republished in 2008.
Loewen was born in Decatur, Illinois, to Winifred and David F. Loewen, on February 6, 1942. His mother was a librarian and teacher, and his father was a medical director and doctor. Loewen grew up in Decatur. He was a National Merit Scholar as a graduate in 1960 from MacArthur High School.
Loewen attended Carleton College. In 1963, as a junior, he spent a semester in Mississippi, an experience in a different culture that led to his questioning what he had been taught about United States history. He was intrigued by learning about the unique place of nineteenth-century Chinese immigrants and their descendants in Mississippi culture, commonly thought of as biracial. Loewen went on to earn a PhD in sociology from Harvard University based on his research on Chinese Americans in Mississippi.
Loewen first taught in Mississippi at Tougaloo College, a historically black college founded by the American Missionary Association after the American Civil War. For twenty years, Loewen taught about racism at the University of Vermont. Since 1997, he has been a visiting professor of Sociology at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
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