To miss out on joy is to miss out on the reason for your existence.
Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.
In sum, U. S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent.
History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you.
The world, of course, doesn't come divided into disciplines. The world just is.
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.
I don't think teachers read the textbooks. And I don't think adoption committees read the textbooks before they adopt them. I think they look at them.
Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.
The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections. . . What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.
There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.
After we have made our requests known to Him, our language should be, "Thy will be done". I would a thousand times rather that Gods' will should be done than my own.