Loewen is survived by his second wife, Susan Robertson Loewen children Nick Loewen and Lucy Loewen McMurrer four grandchildren and his sister, Mary Cavalier.
John Lewis on his acclaimed “March” graphic trilogy.
His other books included “Teaching What Really Happened,” “The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White” and the memoir “Up a Creek, With a Paddle.” The New Press will publish a graphic edition in 2023 of “Lies My Teacher Told Me,” which Loewen had been working on with artist Nate Powell, who had collaborated with Rep. He continued the series with “Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus,” “Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong” and “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers’ Edition" and revised the original work in 2018, during the Donald Trump administration. A Publishers Weekly review called “Lies My Teacher Told Me” a “politically correct critique of 12 American history textbooks” that was “sure to please liberals and infuriate conservatives.” Loewen's book won the American Book Award and was sometimes likened to Howard Zinn's “A People's History” as an alternate text for progressives. But they were too soon out of slavery and so they screwed up and white folks had to take control again.’ “And what happened to me was an 'A-ha' experience, although you might better consider it an 'Oh-no' experience: 16 out of my 17 students said, ‘Well, Reconstruction was the period right after the Civil War when Blacks took over the government of the Southern states. Loewen's “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong” was published in 1995 and became a favorite of students and former students as it challenged what Loewen considered a white, Eurocentric view of the past and the stale prose and bland presentations of classroom books. "Achieving justice in the present helps us tell the truth about the past.” “Telling the truth about the past helps cause justice in the present," was his guiding principle, he wrote.
A professor emeritus at the University of Vermont who lived in Washington, D.C., he had been diagnosed two years ago with Stage IV bladder cancer, enough time for him to post “Notes toward an obituary” on his website. Loewen's publisher, New Press, announced that the author died Thursday at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. Loewen, whose million-selling “Lies My Teacher Told Me” books challenged traditional ideas and knowledge on everything from Thanksgiving to the Iraq War, has died.
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