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

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

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.

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 we got to this point.

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

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

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 United States has ever done, have never thought critically in their life, don't know the meaning of the word "historiography" and have never heard of it. They think that history is something you're supposed to memorize and that's about it. That's not what high school, or what college history teachers want.