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

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

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.

Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

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.

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

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