Reviews and Blog Posts: American history

This was written as an assessment of a dozen or so popular high school history textbooks.  The focus is on major American historical events or periods that are either omitted from these textbooks or just plain wrong in the textbooks’ descriptions.  I found several examples to be completely eye-opening (my...

Imagine being the first to float down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. That’s the story told in this great adventure book. John Wesley Powell and his companions didn’t know what challenges they would face. In 1869 when the group set out there were no available records about the...