Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History
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key topics in, 19–23
in Mississippi, 3–6, 9–10, 12
problems of, 19–21, 30–31, 32–33, 80–81, 88, 215 n. 1–2
racism and, 164
representative, 215 n. 1, 234–235 n. 1
selection process, 31–32
Southern secession and, 183–186
in studying bad history, 76–80, 117
“twig” history and, 19–21, 32–33, 66
in Vermont, 9–10
Through Indian Eyes (Slapin & Seale), 154
Through Women’s Eyes (DuBois & Dumenil), 82
To Be a Slave (Lester), 173
Todorova, I., ix
Tougaloo College (Mississippi), 2–6, 8, 11, 45–46, 49–50, 54, 57–58
Tracking, 60–63, 224 n. 27
Trevor-Roper, Hugh, 125, 228 n. 7
Triumph of the American Nation, 71, 81, 184, 185
Trudeau, Noah Andre, 236 n. 11
Truman, Harry, 205–206
Tubman, Harriet, 173
Turnbull, Colin, 118–119, 227 n. 27, 227 n. 30
Turner, Adrian, 222 n. 4
Turnipseed, John, 5–6
$24 myth, 65, 141–154
additional considerations, 153–154
critique of, 141–145
described, 141
functions of, 147–150
more accurate story, 145–147
racism and, 150–153
Underground Railroad, 173, 232 n. 23
United Nations, 205
U.S. Census Bureau, ix–x, 97–98, 214 n. 12
U.S. Civil Rights Commission, 56–57
U.S. Constitution, 20, 181
First Amendment, 5–6
Fourteenth Amendment, 178, 193, 195
Fifteenth Amendment, 75, 178, 193
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, ix
U.S. Supreme Court, 3, 74, 90, 178
University of Connecticut, 7
University of Illinois, 100
University of Vermont, 7–10, 58, 149–150
University of Virginia, 97–98
Unruh, John, Jr., 221 n. 1
U.S. News & World Report, 155–159, 160
U.S.S.R., 14, 205
Utley, Robert M., 230 n. 11
Van Lew, Elizabeth, 173
Vermont, 7–10, 58, 67, 149–150
Verstehende, 87, 146
Vietnam War, 20, 25–26, 80, 216 n. 7
Vikings, 131–132
Virginia, 23–24, 94, 97–98, 181
Voices of the Valley, 101
Voltaire, 125
Von Däniken, Erich, 225 n. 8
Vos Savant, Marilyn, 229 n. 24
Voting rights, 164, 177–178, 193
Wake Forest Medical School, 112
Walker, Margaret, 86, 222 n. 9, 237 n. 4
Walker, Moses Fleetwood, 189–190
Wallace, Amy, 229–230 n. 7
Wallace, David Duncan, 180, 188, 234 n. 7
Wallace, Irving, 229–230 n. 7
Wallechinsky, David, 139, 229 n. 23, 229–230 n. 7
Wallenstein, Peter, 102
Wall of Fame, 99
War of 1812, 25–26
Washburn, Wilcomb E., 230 n. 11
Washington, George, 38, 83, 170–171
Wealth gap, 158
Weatherford, Jack, 229 n. 21
Weinstein, Rhona, 46, 218 n. 15
Weintraub, Boris, 122, 225 n. 5
Weisberger, Bernard, 75–76, 221 n. 9
West Springfield High School (Virginia), 94
Wheelock, Anne, 220 n. 36
Whig history, 113, 226–227 n. 21
Whig Interpretation of History, The (Butterfield), 113
White, George, 197, 205
White, John, 146
White, Lynn Townsend, Jr., 140
White supremacy, 5, 6, 16–17, 75–76, 150, 182, 193–195, 200–204, 207
Whitman, Glenn, 102
Whitman, Walt, 111, 226 n. 18
Wikis, 88–89, 222 n. 3, 230 n. 10
Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 12–13
Wilson, Woodrow, 14, 29, 216 n. 8
Wineburg, Sam, 41
Winfrey, Oprah, 157
Winkfield, Jimmy, 190
Winkler, Allan, 215 n. 1
Women’s movement, 95
Woodrow Wilson, Jr. High School (Decatur, Illinois), 60–61
Woodward, C. Vann, 208
World War I, 205
World War II, 15–16, 75, 205
Wounded Knee Massacre (South Dakota), 193
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 161, 162
Writing papers, 87–101
field trips and, 94
final product, 98–99
getting started, 95–98
ideas for, 88–89
interviews and, 95–97
local history, 93–95, 102
local sources for, 97–99
National History Day, 90–91, 98–100
Parent Academy and, 91–93
storylines, 89–90, 92, 223 n. 14
student guides, 89
using the product, 99–101
wikis and, 88–89, 222 n. 3, 230 n. 10
Young, Gordon R., 230 n. 11
Zepeda, Sally, 46, 218 n. 15
Zinn, Howard, 31, 82, 216 n. 6
Zoology, 104
About the Author
James W. Loewen taught race relations for twenty years at the University of Vermont. Previously he taught at predominantly black Tougaloo College in Mississippi. He now lives in Washington, DC, continuing his research on how Americans remember their past, and gives workshops for teacher groups around the United States.
His gripping retelling of American history as it should and could be taught, Lies My Teacher Told Me, has sold more than 1,100,000 copies and continues to inspire K–16 teachers to get students to challenge, rather than memorize, their textbooks. It won the American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship. Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong came out in 1999. The Gustavus Myers Foundation named his new book, Sundown Towns, a “Distinguished Book of 2005.”
His other books include Mississippi: Conflict and Change (coauthored), which won the Lillian Smith Award for Best Southern Nonfiction but was rejected for public school text use by the State of Mississippi, leading to the path-breaking First Amendment lawsuit, Loewen et al. v. Turnipseed et al. He also wrote The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White, Social Science in the Courtroom, and The Truth About Columbus.
He has been an expert witness in more than 50 civil rights, voting rights, and employment cases. His awards include the First Annual Spivack Award of the American Sociological Association for “sociological research applied to the field of intergroup relations” and Fulbright and Smithsonian fellowships. He is also Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.