Ironically, Adolf Hitler displayed more knowledge of how we treated Native Americans than American high schoolers today who rely on their textbooks. Hitler admired our concentration camps for American...
History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, and if faced With courage, need not be lived again. —MAYA ANGELOU
Once you have learned how to ask questions—relevant and appropriate and substantial questions—you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know. —NE...
History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, and if faced With courage, need not be lived again. —MAYA ANGELOU1
New England, would face no real Indian challenge. Indeed, the plague helped prompt the legendarily warm reception Plymouth enjoyed from the Wampanoags. Massasoit, the Wampanoag leader, was eager to al...
He is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins. —FREDERICK DOUGLASS
As Benjamin Franklin put it, No European who has tasted Savage Life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.48
When history textbooks leave out the Arawaks, they offend Native Americans. When they omit the possibility of African and Phoenician precursors to Columbus, they offend African Americans. When they gl...
These Americans believed that one great male god ruled the world. Sometimes they divided him into three parts, which they called father, son, and holy ghost. They ate crackers and wine or grape juice,...
Patriotism can flourish only where racism and nationalism are given no quarter. We should never mistake patriotism for nationalism. A patriot is one who loves his homeland. A nationalist is one who sc...
It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit.
Hitler admired our concentration camps for American Indians in the west and according to John Toland, his biographer, often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America’s extermination—by sta...
For that matter an individual with the money (between $500 and $2,000) and a place to put it can erect a historical marker.
Europeans were always trying to stop the outflow. Hernando de Soto had to post guards to keep his men and women from defecting to Native societies. The Pilgrims so feared Indianization that they made...
Baptist minister and inventor Burrell Cannon (1848–1922) led some Pittsburg investors to establish the Ezekiel Airship Company and build a craft described in the Biblical book of Ezekiel. The ship had...
People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions not backed by evidence cannot be given much weight.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions, Helen Keller pointed out. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Our goal must be to help students uncover the past rather than cover it. Instead of teaching the book, teachers must develop a list of 30–50 topics they want to teach in their U.S. history course. Eve...
Official state historical markers form a smaller population, and early in my research I determined to read all of them. Texas dissuaded me. The Lone Star state has more state historical markers—nearly...
Of course the people do not want war. . . . But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democr...