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.

Conclusions are not always pleasant.

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

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.

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

Very few college professors want high school graduates in their history class who are simply "gung ho" and "rah-rah" with regard to everything the United States has ever done, have never thought critically in their life, don't know the meaning of the word "historiography" and have never heard of it. They think that history is something you're supposed to memorize and that's about it. That's not what high school, or what college history teachers want.