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

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United States, without regard to our own acts and ideas, does not make us moral or immoral beings. History is more complicated than that.

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

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

Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights in the west.

It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit... No one likes to think of him or herself as a bad person. To treat badly another person whom we consider a reasonable human being creates a tension between act and attitude that demands resolution. We cannot erase what we have done, and to alter our future behavior may not be in our interest. To change our attitude is easier.