Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many … - James W. Loewen

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Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful, and who their coaches were.

James W. Loewen

Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch the eye of adoption committees but dull when read by students.

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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.

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History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you.

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The world, of course, doesn't come divided into disciplines. The world just is.

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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.

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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.

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