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

James W. Loewen

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

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

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

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Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch…

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As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have committed mass…

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I think the first important thing is that usually most textbooks are not written by their authors. And so by author I mean the…

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Teachers need to teach the subject rather than to teach the textbook.

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“No matter how thoroughly Native Americans acculturated, they could not succeed in white society. Whites would not let them. "Indians were always regarded as…

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“We seem to feel that a person like Helen Keller can be an inspiration only so long as she remains uncontroversial, one-dimensional. We don't…

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