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

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

History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you.

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

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

I often suggest in workshops that if you have 30 students in your American History course in 11th grade, or whatever grade level, that you maybe triple them up. You put, and have them choose, let's say 11 different Native American cultures. Maybe you give them a list of 15 and they choose 11 of those 15 so that they have some choice in the matter.

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