I think the first important thing is that usually most textbooks are not written by their authors. And so by author I mean the people who did not write them; so it's a new definition of "author."

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

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.

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

There is no excuse for these 1,152 page textbooks.

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