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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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