Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous people in the Western Hemisphere, leading to their near extermination, and the transatlantic slave trade, which created a racial underclass.

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

You go to towns in Massachusetts, Greenfield, first settled in 1686. Wouldn’t it be cool if it said, “Greenfield. First settled c. 13,000 B.P. or approximately 13,000 Before the Present. Resettled.” Maybe we could say even, “Resettled by whites,” Or, “Resettled anyway, 1686.” It would have a different impact. And of course it would help explain why the town is called Greenfield, because it was a green field and the fields were left by Native people who had already been farming them.

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

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

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