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| James Loewen |
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James Loewen's gripping retelling of American history as it could be taught, Lies My Teacher Told Me, has sold more than 800,000 copies and continues to inspire K-16 teachers to get students to challenge, rather than memorize, their textbooks.
Loewen taught race relations for 20 years at the University of Vermont and now lives in Washington, D.C., continuing his research on how Americans remember their past. Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong came out in 1999. The Gustavus Myers Foundation named his most recent book, Sundown Towns, a "Distinguished Book of 2005."
He has been an expert witness in more than 50 civil rights, voting rights, and employment cases. His awards include the Spivack Award of the American Sociological Association for "sociological research applied to the field of intergroup relations," the American Book Award (for Lies My Teacher Told Me), and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship. He is also Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.
Loewen will speak at noon Monday, May 5.
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| Bob Welch |
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Start Tuesday, May 6, off right with gifted speaker and award-winning author Bob Welch, who as a journalist has watched the Eugene-Springfield area and its track heritage evolve for more than 35 years.
Welch wrote American Nightingale about the first nurse to die after the landings at Normandy. Publishers Weekly called the book a “stirring story”. He has written seven other books, including My Oregon, A Father for All Seasons, and Where Roots Grow Deep.
A versatile writer, his articles have appeared in Reader’s Digest, Sports Illustrated, Runners World and the popular Chicken Soup for the Soul series. For five of the last seven years, he has been honored by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. He has served as a judge for numerous writing events, including the 2005 and 2006 Erma Bombeck Humor Writing awards.
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| Herbert Hoover's 2008 Campaign Manager |
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Just two weeks before the Oregon presidential primary election, the manager of the 2008 Herbert Hoover for President campaign talks about Hoover’s childhood in Newberg and Salem, his love of fishing the McKenzie River, and how the former president would lead the nation if elected this year.
The talk is scheduled for the noon luncheon, Tuesday, May 6.
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