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.

Textbooks are written in an oracular monotone, so that they claim to be true and important.

The world, of course, doesn't come divided into disciplines. The world just is.

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

Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures. “What we have done to the peoples who were living in North America” is, according to anthropologist Sol Tax, “our Original Sin.

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.

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