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

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.

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

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.

Many Americans have never owned a book. And others have never owned a non-fiction book. Providing them with a 300-page paperback would get them started, maybe. And even if it didn't, at least they'd own that one. So that's a serious problem.

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

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