History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point.

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

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

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.

We still have to realize that if you are say a historian of the Civil War, you don’t know anything special about say Columbus or for that matter the 20th century. You are a consumer of that information, especially if it’s stuff like Columbus and the American Indians. That information isn’t even in history, much of it. Much of it is in anthropology or archeology.

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

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