Books like Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
12 books with a reading profile close to Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen. Outward-looking and clear-cut; a moderate read.
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BLACK AF HISTORY
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Michael Harriot reconstructs the American timeline by centering Black agency rather than treating it as a footnote to white narratives.
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2
REGIME CHANGE
by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, analytical
Two White House correspondents for The New York Times delve into the first year of President Trump's second term.
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3
The Nineties
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Chuck Klosterman examines the decade between the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Twin Towers, defining it as a period of low-stakes sincerity and pervasive irony.
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, analytical
Jason Reynolds adapts Ibram X.
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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, analytical
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt argue that modern democracies rarely collapse through violent military coups but instead erode from within through the legal subversion of institutions.
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RAGE AND THE REPUBLIC
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Jonathan Turley examines the history of public fury in the United States, tracking how political anger has shaped constitutional law and legislative cycles from the colonial era to the present.
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The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
by Tim Marshall
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, analytical
Tim Marshall examines how physical landscapes and regional borders dictate the strategic calculations of modern nations.
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
history, analytical
Reni Eddo-Lodge examines the disconnect in British racial discourse, beginning with a viral blog post regarding the emotional labor required to explain prejudice to those who deny its existence.
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Poverty, by America
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, analytical
Matthew Desmond identifies the persistence of American poverty as a deliberate byproduct of the advantages enjoyed by the secure classes.
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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Also clear-cut · history, analytical
Mikki Kendall identifies a fundamental disconnect between mainstream feminist rhetoric and the lived realities of localized communities.
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Nuclear War: A Scenario
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, analytical
Annie Jacobsen constructs a minute-by-minute timeline of a fictional nuclear exchange triggered by a North Korean strike on Washington, D.C.
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
by Bill Bryson
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, analytical
Bill Bryson uses his 1851 Norfolk rectory as a physical map to trace how the modern domestic world evolved.
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