# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-loewen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:37:12.906Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-loewen"
name: "James Loewen"
slug: "james-loewen"
description: "James William Loewen was an American sociologist, historian, and author. He was best known for his 1995 book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. A 2005 book, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, galvanized a national effort to develop a list of sundown towns."
tagline: "American historian (1942-2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Merlin_14334447_4b896409-b4b4-4d4f-b671-88388792fca6-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1942-02-06"
deathDate: "2021-08-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.74
  momentum:             12.0991691988829
  historical:           6.196801333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm15372878/"
    handle:    "nm15372878"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.uvm.edu/~jloewen/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_W._Loewen"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "جيمس لوين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "جيمس لوين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._Loewen"
    title: "James W. Loewen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._Loewen"
    title: "James W. Loewen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Loewen"
    title: "James Loewen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._Loewen"
    title: "James W. Loewen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1681252"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump