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.

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

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

People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions not backed by evidence cannot be given much weight.

I've been in towns where there is no library, or where the library for the high school and the library for the town is one room, and it's smaller than my modest living room here. So you don't have many resources in 1950 or even 1970. This is the year, 2013, every town in America is connected to the web. Every town in America is therefore connected to all kinds of resources at the Library of Congress, at 100,000 websites.

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

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