Sam Wineburg quotes:

MindSparks has produced some of the best materials on the market for teaching students how to read and write history with intellectual integrity and depth. Rarely have I come across curriculum so useful in helping students become literate, thinking citizens. Bravo.

Woodrow Wilson claimed that history endows us with the invaluable mental power we call judgment.

Woodrow Wilson claimed that history endows us with the "invaluable mental power we call judgment.

Texts are not "processed" as much as they are resurrected, and the image of reader and information processor or computer device, which often dominates current discussions of reading, seems less apt than another metaphor: the reader as necromancer.

The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them.

(The historian) was able to disapprove without being astonished. She could reject and still understand.

The hardest work begins in dry dock.

We haven't ever known our past. Your kids are no stupider than their grandparents.