I bought this book as part of the Ambleside Online homeschooling curriculum, intending to read it to my children. Fortunately I did not hand it to them to read as I had to change significant portions of it so that they wouldn't hear racist information from their history text.I understand that there are biases in every history text, but there has to be something better than this book. Good writing cannot make up for all of the major problems with this book.