Native Americans cured Cartier’s men of scurvy near Montreal in 1535. They repaired Francis Drake’s Golden Hind in California so he could complete his round-the-world voyage in 1579. Lewis and Clark’s expedition to the Pacific...

I had an Aha! moment. It was October of 2001. I was speaking in my home town in Decatur.

It’s tied to life expectancy. They make it sound as if it’s a health measure.

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.

There was a contagion of ordinances. Many small towns expelled the black population or decreed a policy of not allowing any blacks.