ABSTRACT
In world history the question of content receives the most frequent attention, and it arrives framed in nearly identical terms each time. Writers express the desire to extend the subject matter but immediately lament that they do not know “what they can leave out.” This formulation is not only a negative one—what to omit, rather than what to include—but it assumes that what we presently teach is important, even though we recognize that our lenses have been honed by the stones of dominant cultures.
