https://sundayeveningreview.com/tags/from-the-editor/Recent content in From the Editor on Sunday Evening ReviewHugoen-usTue, 26 May 2026 06:00:00 -0500https://sundayeveningreview.com/ideas/from-the-editor-late-may-2026/Tue, 26 May 2026 06:00:00 -0500https://sundayeveningreview.com/ideas/from-the-editor-late-may-2026/<p>Matthew called from Fredericksburg on Sunday afternoon, which is when he always calls, and he said something I&rsquo;ve been thinking about since.</p> <p>He teaches high school history. Ninth year now. He&rsquo;s better at it than he used to be, which he&rsquo;ll acknowledge if you ask him directly and which you&rsquo;d see within ten minutes of watching him work. He told me he&rsquo;s been trying to get his juniors to read primary sources this semester rather than the textbook summaries. Actual documents. Not because the textbooks are wrong, he said, but because textbooks smooth everything out.</p>