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.

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.