Friends and Colleagues from Around the World, Which books help us celebrate our 250th anniversary as the fireworks go off, so we can see beyond the spectacle to the shadows behind it, which are rarely spoken or acknowledged? I’ve chosen four books that reveal some of the things we’re not taught at school or that we ignore, and yet they offer insights into often-overlooked phenomena that have made our country what it is. “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong,” by James Loewen, is as good a place to begin thinking about the United States […]