American history Quote by James W. Loewen

University was fun in many ways - new people, a new town, a bigger Vodka Revs bar. But my three years there also involved…

— Lolly Adefope

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean…

— Carlos Fuentes

“Columbus's real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at…

— Bill Bryson

“On November 27, 1493, when Columbus returned to Navidad, he found that the 39 crew members that he had left behind had been murdered,…

— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba

“Christopher Columbus and his brothers were no different from many of the Spanish adventurers of the time. They were a roughhewn lot, who wrote…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba

Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous people…

— James W. Loewen

We still have to realize that if you are say a historian of the Civil War, you don’t know anything special about say Columbus…

— James W. Loewen

So long as our textbooks hide from us the roles that people of color have played in exploration, from at least 6000 BC to…

— James W. Loewen

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

— James W. Loewen

I often suggest in workshops that if you have 30 students in your American History course in 11th grade, or whatever grade level, that…

— James W. Loewen

And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of the sect…

— Christopher Columbus

Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.

— Alfred North Whitehead