Hochschullehrer (Mississippi) - Eugene Woldemar Hilgard, James W. Loewen, Walter E. Dellinger, Greg Bahnsen, Samuel Andrew Witherspoon (English, German, Paperback)

Kapitel: Eugene Woldemar Hilgard, James W. Loewen, Walter E. Dellinger, Greg Bahnsen, Samuel Andrew Witherspoon, Barry Hannah. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: James (Jim) W. Loewen (b. February 6, 1942) is a sociologist, professor, and author whose best-known work is Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (1995). Loewen was born to Winifred and Dr. David F. Loewen in 1942. His mother was a librarian and teacher, and his father was a medical director. Loewen grew up in Decatur, Illinois. He was a National Merit Scholar as a graduate in 1960 from MacArthur High School. He 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. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University based on his research on the Chinese in Mississippi. Loewen first taught at Tougaloo College, a historically black college in Mississippi founded by the American Missionary Association after the Civil War. For 20 years, Loewen taught race relations at the University of Vermont. Since 1997, he has been a Visiting Professor of Sociology at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. Loewen co-authored a United States history textbook, Mississippi: Conflict and Change (1974), which won the Lillian Smith Award for Best Southern Nonfiction in 1975. The Mississippi Textbook Purchasing Board did not approve the textbook for use in the state school system. Loewen challenged the state's decision in a lawsuit, Loewen v. Turnipseed (1980). The American Library Association considers Loewen v. Turnipseed, 488 F. Supp. 1138 (N.D. Miss. 1980), a historic First Amendment case, and one of ...http: //booksllc.net/?l=d