Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.

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.

I often suggest in workshops that if you have 30 students in your American History course in 11th grade, or whatever grade level, that you maybe triple them up. You put, and have them choose, let's say 11 different Native American cultures. Maybe you give them a list of 15 and they choose 11 of those 15 so that they have some choice in the matter.

Conclusions are not always pleasant.

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

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

There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist.