Description: A new edition of a classic book telling the history of all of Mississippi's peoples
Brief description: James W. Loewen (1942-2021) was author of Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong, Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History, and Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism and coeditor of Mississippi: Conflict and Change and The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" about the "Lost Cause," the latter published by University Press of Mississippi. He was professor emeritus at the University of Vermont.
Review Quotes: PRAISE FOR THE ORIGINAL EDITION:
Destined to have a far-reaching impact upon the historical profession, upon the writing of United States history, and upon the movement for 'truth in texts.'-- "Newsletter of the American Historical Association"