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James Loewen spent two years at the Smithsonian surveying 12 leading high school textbooks of American history, only to find an embarrassing blend of bland optimism, blind nationalism, and plain misinformation, weighing in at an average of 888 pages and almost five pounds. He is a best selling author who has written Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong. He also wrote Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong, a book that has sold more than 800,000 copies and continues to inspire K-16 teachers to get students to challenge rather than memorize their textbooks. The Gustavus Myers Foundation named his new book, Sundown Towns, a Distinguished Book of 2005. He discovered through his research that many communities were (and some still are) “Sundown Towns” that kept out blacks and other groups for decades.

Read the Legacy magazine interview with James Loewen.

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Erica Wheeler is an award-winning songwriter and experienced workshop facilitator. She has four critically acclaimed CDs to her credit and has been featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Her music charted for four weeks in the top ten on Billboard’s Gavin Americana Chart. Touted in the press as the next Mary Chapin Carpenter, Erica writes songs that are full of sharply detailed portraits of the American landscape and the lives lived there. “All Music Guide” noted that her songs combine the “literary sensitivity of New England with the spiritual vision of the American West.”

Read the Legacy magazine interview with Erica Wheeler.