James W. Loewen (1942-2021) was the bestselling and award-winning author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, Lies Across America, Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus, Sundown Towns, and Lies My Teacher Told Me : Young Readers' Edition (all from The New Press). He also wrote Teaching What Really Happened and The Mississippi Chinese : Between Black and White and edited The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader.
He won the American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, the Spirit of America Award from the National Council for the Social Studies, and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award. Nate Powell is a National Book Award-winning cartoonist who began self-publishing as an Arkansas teenager in 1992. His work includes Fall Through, Save It for Later, civil rights icon John Lewis's March trilogy and its follow-up Run, Come Again, Two Dead, Any Empire, and Swallow Me Whole, as well as comics and writing for the Washington Post, The Nib, American Library Association, Slate, the Weather Channel, and CNN.
Powell's work has also received four Eisner Awards, two Ignatz Awards, the Comic-Con International Inkpot Award, multiple ALA and YALSA distinctions, and is a two-time finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has discussed his work at the United Nations, on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, PBS, CNN, and Free Speech TV. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.
He won the American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, the Spirit of America Award from the National Council for the Social Studies, and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award. Nate Powell is a National Book Award-winning cartoonist who began self-publishing as an Arkansas teenager in 1992. His work includes Fall Through, Save It for Later, civil rights icon John Lewis's March trilogy and its follow-up Run, Come Again, Two Dead, Any Empire, and Swallow Me Whole, as well as comics and writing for the Washington Post, The Nib, American Library Association, Slate, the Weather Channel, and CNN.
Powell's work has also received four Eisner Awards, two Ignatz Awards, the Comic-Con International Inkpot Award, multiple ALA and YALSA distinctions, and is a two-time finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has discussed his work at the United Nations, on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, PBS, CNN, and Free Speech TV. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.
