Textbooks pretty much have no real drama. They have no real storyline. To the extent they have a storyline.

- James W. Loewen

Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

- James W. Loewen

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

- James W. Loewen

History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you.

- James W. Loewen

It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit... No one likes to think of him or herself as a bad person. To …

- James W. Loewen

Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and la…

- James W. Loewen

Many Americans have never owned a book, and I'm not talking about because of the recent digital revolution. I'm talking about before there even was a…

- James W. Loewen

Many Americans have never owned a book. And others have never owned a non-fiction book. Providing them with a 300-page paperback would get them start…

- James W. Loewen

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

- James W. Loewen