From the press release:
James Loewen, best-selling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong, will be a Unit One/Allen Hall Guest-in-Residence October 21–October 24.
All events take place in the Main Lounge of Allen Hall, 1005 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana unless noted otherwise. Free parking is available in the garage across the street.
Sunday, October 21
7:00 p.m. – Lies My Teacher Told Me and How to Do Better
Monday, October 22
7:00 p.m. – The Most Important Era That You’ve Never Heard Of
Tuesday, October 23
7:00 p.m. – Sundown Towns: Racial Cleansing in Illinois and Across America
9:00 p.m. – meet up of people interested in doing research on Sundown Towns (in the guest apartment)
Wednesday, October 24
7:00 p.m. – How Standardized Tests Like the SAT, ACT, and GRE Lie About Your Abilities
James Loewen wrote the best-selling Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong, in part as a critique of existing textbooks, but also an account of American history as it should be taught. His more recent books include Teaching What Really Happened and Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism. He also wrote Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong, The Truth About Columbus, and Mississippi: Conflict and Change, which won the Lillian Smith Award for Best Southern Nonfiction. This book 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 has been an expert witness in more than fifty civil rights, voting rights, and employment cases.