In a 2018 interview with NPR, he said that inspiration for Lies My Teacher Told Me came while he was teaching at the historically Black college Tougaloo College in Mississippi, and asked his students for their thoughts on Reconstruction: It became an instant classic as it challenged the Eurocentric, white, patriarchal, narrow views of classroom texts by presenting an alternative text that corrected many of the myths and lies that are taught by the education system. James Loewen, who passed away on August 19, 2021, published the book in 1995. I laughed thinking about it and the story warms me, in part because it reminds me of the book the Lies My Teacher Told Me. At one point, I got heated and yelled, “they don’t want you to know this!” The students looking somewhat confused, asked who doesn’t want us to know? Surprised by their responses, I scrambled and replied, “the school board.” While analyzing a canonized text on King Arthur to a group of 10 th graders, I pointed to many of the problems centered around gender, class, violence, and history.
In my Intro to Sociology courses, I often recall a story I told students when I was teaching at Little Rock’s Parkville High School in Little Rock, Arkansas while working on my masters in secondary education.
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