james w. loewen

A black and white photo of a statue of a man on a horse, surrounded by several tattered flags, including Confederate flags.

From the Archives: Lies Across the South

By Southern Exposure
August 26, 2021 - Our monuments, markers, and other historical sites shape how we remember our past — with implications for the present. Writing for Southern Exposure magazine in 2000, sociologist and people's historian James Loewen journeyed through the South's memorial landscape and found that, all too often, it got the story wrong. Loewen died this month at age 79.