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

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.

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

All of the common core standards stuff about critical reading and critical thinking and so on can only be positive.

The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read.

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.

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.