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• Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United…
• Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.
• Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.
• Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from…
• People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions…
• As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have…
• Conclusions are not always pleasant.
• The idea that we would operate and amputate healthy tissue from a baby, from an unconsenting minor, to supposedly prevent some hypothetical…
• Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.
• Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy…
• It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit... No one likes to think of…
• In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither…

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