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..

Conclusions are not always pleasant..

I think the first important thing is that usually most textbooks are not written by their authors. And so by author I mean the people who did not wri….

History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how….

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….

Very few college professors want high school graduates in their history class who are simply "gung ho" and "rah-rah" with regard to everything the Un….

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

The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read..

Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual.

What gets lost in the textbook is the overall narrative. It gets lost in all the boxes and all the photos and all the little stuff that's stuck in al….

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 ….

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….

We preach democracy while supporting dictatorships..

There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist..

It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit..

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

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..

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….