So long as our textbooks hide from us the roles that people of color have played in exploration, from at least 6000 BC to the twentieth century, they….

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade..

I often suggest in workshops that if you have 30 students in your American History course in 11th grade, or whatever grade level, that you maybe trip….

Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures. “What we….

Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained along a line o….

It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit... No one likes to think of him or herself as a bad person. To ….

Textbooks pretty much have no real drama. They have no real storyline. To the extent they have a storyline..

Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United States, withou….

I'm looking forward to the future, which is a good thing, because it's coming..

Many Americans have never owned a book. And others have never owned a non-fiction book. Providing them with a 300-page paperback would get them start….

Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and la….

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history..

History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you..

Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them..

Many Americans have never owned a book, and I'm not talking about because of the recent digital revolution. I'm talking about before there even was a….

The world, of course, doesn't come divided into disciplines. The world just is..

As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have committed mass sui….

Textbooks are written in an oracular monotone, so that they claim to be true and important..

Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy….

Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history..

I've been in towns where there is no library, or where the library for the high school and the library for the town is one room, and it's smaller tha….