Conclusions are not always pleasant.

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.

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

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

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

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

In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent.