I don't think teachers read the textbooks. And I don't think adoption committees read the textbooks before they adopt them. I think they look at them..

There is no excuse for these 1,152 page textbooks..

We still have to realize that if you are say a historian of the Civil War, you don’t know anything special about say Columbus or for that matter the ….

Teachers need to teach the subject rather than to teach the textbook..

Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights in the west..

All of the common core standards stuff about critical reading and critical thinking and so on can only be positive..

We preach democracy while supporting dictatorships..

You go to towns in Massachusetts, Greenfield, first settled in 1686. Wouldn’t it be cool if it said, “Greenfield. First settled c. 13,000 B.P. or app….

In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally l….

People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions not backed by evidence can….

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

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

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….

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

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….

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….

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..

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

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….

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….