This book changed me from being a "conservative" to a "liberal"....

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20. When I was in college I kept dropping my American History required course

I hated American history. It was nothing but one war after another and nothing but what the government did. It was remembering dates by rote regarding American acquisitions of the continent and the spread of our imperialist white agenda. Then one day my counselor told me I could fulfill that requirement by taking another version of American History, like women's history. I did and it turns out this country has had a fascinating history when you learn about the different immigrants who came over in waves, and about the Native Americans and the slave trade and when wars were covered it was always from the women's perspective. How during every war women stepped in to do the men's work as well as their own. It was about women's suffrage and the anti-slavery movement and the fight to get the right to vote.

The US has far more depth to it than just one President after another going to war in whatever year it happened with everything else delegated to being a mere asterisk.