What gets lost in the textbook is the overall narrative. It gets lost in all the boxes and all the photos and all the little stuff that's stuck in all the time.

Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights in the west.

Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures. “What we have done to the peoples who were living in North America” is, according to anthropologist Sol Tax, “our Original Sin.

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

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

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

Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United States, without regard to our own acts and ideas, does not make us moral or immoral beings. History is more complicated than that.