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James W. Loewen Quote: “Saving the Union had never been Lincoln’s sole concern, as shown by his 1860 rejection of the eleventh-hour Crittenden Compromise, a constitutional amendment intended to preserve the Union by preserving slavery forever.”

101. “Saving the Union had never been Lincoln’s sole concern, as shown by his 1860 rejection of the eleventh-hour Crittenden Compromise, a constitutional amendment intended to preserve the Union by preserving slavery forever.”

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James W. Loewen Quote: “One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over.”

102. “One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over.”

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James W. Loewen Quote: “Perhaps telling realistically what slavery was like for slaves is the easy part. After all, slavery as an institution is dead. We have progressed beyond it, so we can acknowledge its evils. Slavery’s twin legacies to the present are the social and economic inferiority it conferred upon blacks and the cultural racism it instilled in whites. Both continue to haunt our society. Therefore, treating slavery’s enduring legacy is necessarily controversial. Unlike slavery, racism is not over yet.”

103. “Perhaps telling realistically what slavery was like for slaves is the easy part. After all, slavery as an institution is dead. We have progressed beyond it, so we can acknowledge its evils. Slavery’s twin legacies to the present are the social and economic inferiority it conferred upon blacks and the cultural racism it instilled in whites. Both continue to haunt our society. Therefore, treating slavery’s enduring legacy is necessarily controversial. Unlike slavery, racism is not over yet.”

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James W. Loewen Quote: “Textbooks need to offer the sociological definition of segregation: a system of racial etiquette that keeps the oppressed group separate from the oppressor when both are doing equal tasks, like learning the multiplication tables, but allows intimate closeness when the tasks are hierarchical, like cooking or cleaning for white employers.”

104. “Textbooks need to offer the sociological definition of segregation: a system of racial etiquette that keeps the oppressed group separate from the oppressor when both are doing equal tasks, like learning the multiplication tables, but allows intimate closeness when the tasks are hierarchical, like cooking or cleaning for white employers.”

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James W. Loewen Quote: “He ended his description of them with these menacing words: “I could conquer the whole of them with fifty men and govern them as I pleased.”

105. “He ended his description of them with these menacing words: “I could conquer the whole of them with fifty men and govern them as I pleased.”

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James W. Loewen Quote: “Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures.”

106. “Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures.”

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James W. Loewen Quote: “If they are left-wing, they can subscribe to Daily Kos and Huffington Post. If they are right-wing, they can subscribe to Breitbart or the Drudge Report.6 Less often do they subscribe to outlets that provide several points of view. As a result, their thinking rarely gets challenged, so they become still less likely or able to assess information critically.”

107. “If they are left-wing, they can subscribe to Daily Kos and Huffington Post. If they are right-wing, they can subscribe to Breitbart or the Drudge Report.6 Less often do they subscribe to outlets that provide several points of view. As a result, their thinking rarely gets challenged, so they become still less likely or able to assess information critically.”

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James W. Loewen Quote: “This is part of a pattern in our textbooks: anything bad in America history happened anonymously.”

108. “This is part of a pattern in our textbooks: anything bad in America history happened anonymously.”

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James W. Loewen Quote: “As part of the process of heroification, textbook authors treat America itself as a hero, indeed as the hero of their books, so they remove its warts. Even to report the facts of income and wealth distribution might seem critical of America the hero, for it is difficult to come up with a theory of social justice that can explain why 1 percent of the population controls almost 40 percent of the wealth.”

109. “As part of the process of heroification, textbook authors treat America itself as a hero, indeed as the hero of their books, so they remove its warts. Even to report the facts of income and wealth distribution might seem critical of America the hero, for it is difficult to come up with a theory of social justice that can explain why 1 percent of the population controls almost 40 percent of the wealth.”

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James W. Loewen Quote: “The authors make no connection between the failure of the United States to guarantee black civil rights in 1877 and the need for a civil rights movement a century later. Nothing ever causes anything. Things just happen.”

110. “The authors make no connection between the failure of the United States to guarantee black civil rights in 1877 and the need for a civil rights movement a century later. Nothing ever causes anything. Things just happen.”

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James W. Loewen Quote: “We cannot erase what we have done, and to alter our future behavior may not be in our interest. To change our attitude is easier.”

111. “We cannot erase what we have done, and to alter our future behavior may not be in our interest. To change our attitude is easier.”

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James W. Loewen Quote: “How people think about the past is an important part of their consciousness.”

112. “How people think about the past is an important part of their consciousness.”

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James W. Loewen Quote: “Surely, in history, “truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost.”

113. “Surely, in history, “truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost.”

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James W. Loewen Quote: “When confronting a claim about the distant past or a statement about what happened yesterday, students – indeed, all Americans – need to develop informed skepticism, not nihilistic cynicism.”

114. “When confronting a claim about the distant past or a statement about what happened yesterday, students – indeed, all Americans – need to develop informed skepticism, not nihilistic cynicism.”

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James W. Loewen Quote: “Understanding our past is central to our ability to understand ourselves and the world around us.”

115. “Understanding our past is central to our ability to understand ourselves and the world around us.”

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James W. Loewen Quote: “Without the Native example, “do you really believe that all those ideas would have found birth among a people who had spent a millennium butchering other people because of intolerance of questions of religion?”

116. “Without the Native example, “do you really believe that all those ideas would have found birth among a people who had spent a millennium butchering other people because of intolerance of questions of religion?”

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James W. Loewen Quote: “Although each of us comes into the world de novo, we are not really new creatures. We arrive into a social slot, born not only to a family but also a religion, community, and, of course, a nation and a culture.”

117. “Although each of us comes into the world de novo, we are not really new creatures. We arrive into a social slot, born not only to a family but also a religion, community, and, of course, a nation and a culture.”

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James W. Loewen Quote: “No sensible Indian person,” wrote George P. Horse Capture, “can celebrate the arrival of Columbus.”90 Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.”

118. “No sensible Indian person,” wrote George P. Horse Capture, “can celebrate the arrival of Columbus.”90 Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.”

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James W. Loewen Quote: “Those few textbooks that do discuss Wilson’s racism and other shortcomings have to battle uphill, for they struggle against the archetypal Woodrow Wilson commemorated in so many history museums, public television documentaries, and historical novels.”

119. “Those few textbooks that do discuss Wilson’s racism and other shortcomings have to battle uphill, for they struggle against the archetypal Woodrow Wilson commemorated in so many history museums, public television documentaries, and historical novels.”

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James W. Loewen Quote: “Why are history textbooks so bad? Nationalism is one of the culprits. Textbooks are often muddled by the conflicting desires to promote inquiry and to indoctrinate blind patriotism.”

120. “Why are history textbooks so bad? Nationalism is one of the culprits. Textbooks are often muddled by the conflicting desires to promote inquiry and to indoctrinate blind patriotism.”

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James W. Loewen Quote: “History is not a set of facts but a series of arguments, issues, and controversies.”

121. “History is not a set of facts but a series of arguments, issues, and controversies.”

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James W. Loewen Quote: “In June 1906, the city council of Santa Ana, California, passed a resolution that called for “the fire department to burn each and every one of the said buildings known as Chinatown”; on June 26 a crowd of more than a thousand watched it burn.”

122. “In June 1906, the city council of Santa Ana, California, passed a resolution that called for “the fire department to burn each and every one of the said buildings known as Chinatown”; on June 26 a crowd of more than a thousand watched it burn.”

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James W. Loewen Quote: “Making the present seem inevitable robs history of all its life and much of its meaning.”

123. “Making the present seem inevitable robs history of all its life and much of its meaning.”

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James W. Loewen Quote: “Sundown suburbs are the key reason why geographer Jeff Crump was able to maintain that “cities in the United States are the most racially segregated urban areas in the world.”

124. “Sundown suburbs are the key reason why geographer Jeff Crump was able to maintain that “cities in the United States are the most racially segregated urban areas in the world.”

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