Quotes by James W. Loewen

James W. Loewen

All of the common core standards stuff about critical reading and critical thinking and so on can only be positive.

Being Positive

Reading

Thinking

As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have committed mass suicide. The women, exhausted by labor, have shunned conception and childbirth . . . Many, when pregnant, have taken something to abort and have aborted. Others after delivery have killed their children with their own hands, so as not to leave them in such oppressive slavery.

Children

Suicide

Taken

Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.

Cherish

Columbus

White

Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous people in the Western Hemisphere, leading to their near extermination, and the transatlantic slave trade, which created a racial underclass.

Land

Race

Two

Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual

Columbus

Firsts

Slave

Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Conclusion

Pleasant

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

Used

Weapons

History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point.

Awful

Important

Topics

I don’t think teachers read the textbooks. And I don’t think adoption committees read the textbooks before they adopt them. I think they look at them.

Adoption

Teacher

Thinking

I often suggest in workshops that if you have 30 students in your American History course in 11th grade, or whatever grade level, that you maybe triple them up. You put, and have them choose, let’s say 11 different Native American cultures. Maybe you give them a list of 15 and they choose 11 of those 15 so that they have some choice in the matter.

Choices

Giving

Native American

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Adoption

America

Attitude

Awful

Being Positive

Book

Cherish

Children

Choices

Claims

College

Color

Columbus

Conclusion

Creating

Culture

Democracy

Dictatorship

Digital Revolution

Discipline

Divided

Doe

Done

Drama

England

Europe

Eye

Feel Good

Feels

Fiction

Firsts

Fishing

Giving

Good Things

Green Fields

History

Honest

Ideas

Impact

Important

Infancy Is

Information

Interesting

Land

Littles

Looking Forward

Looking Forward To The Future

Lying

Mean

Narrative

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Quotes by James W. Loewen

James W. Loewen

All of the common core standards stuff about critical reading and critical thinking and so on can only be positive.

Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.

Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual

Conclusions are not always pleasant.

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

History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point.

I don’t think teachers read the textbooks. And I don’t think adoption committees read the textbooks before they adopt them. I think they look at them.

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