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

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 all the time.

As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have committed mass suicide. The women, exhausted by labor, have shunned conception and childbirth . . . Many, when pregnant, have taken something to abort and have aborted. Others after delivery have killed their children with their own hands, so as not to leave them in such oppressive slavery.

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

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

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 digital revolution.

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