Talk Nation Radio: James Loewen on the Lies That Confederate Statues Tell

James Loewen's books include Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong, Lies My Teacher Told Me and Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism. Earlier this year, he spoke at a symposium in Richmond on Confederate monuments and memorials, available on C-SPAN. And a couple of years ago he wrote an article in the Washington Post called "Why do people believe myths about the Confederacy? Because our textbooks and monuments are wrong." His website is http://sundown.tougaloo.edu We discuss confederate statues.