Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.
I'm looking forward to the future, which is a good thing, because it's coming.
The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.
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 started, maybe. And even if it didn't, at least they'd own that one. So that's a serious problem.
There is no excuse for these 1,152 page textbooks.
The world, of course, doesn't come divided into disciplines. The world just is.