☕📚 History We Were Never Taught
The history that didn’t make it into our textbooks. Stories centered on Indigenous, Black, and Global South voices. No whitewashed timelines. Just truth, context, and the receipts.
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created by TigerLily
last updated January, 2026
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May I suggest Caste by Isabel Wilkerson and How The Word Is Passed by Clint Smith?
And How To Hide An Empire by Daniel Immerwahr
Thank you for these recommendations. Adding How to Hide an Empire now. Caste and How the Word Is Passed are not in the catalog yet, but they are on my radar and will be added once available. Reading with intention this year. ☕📖
The author does the audiobook for How The Word Is Passed! That’s how I read it. I learned a lot and got to fill in a lot of gaps from my education growing up. Highly recommend. I’m still making my way through the audiobook for Caste. It’s already taken me 5 years because I can only handle it in pieces as just the beginning encompasses lots of eras I lived through and it’s difficult to hear them all contextualized at once. I am learning a lot from it, though. How to Hide An Empire I read in grad school and it blew my mind in a frustrating way.
That sounds incredibly powerful. I actually haven’t read these yet, but the way you describe them makes me want to approach them thoughtfully, especially knowing how heavy and personal some of that history can be. I really appreciate you sharing your experience. It helps me think about how and when I might take them on. ☕
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Thank you for these suggestions. I have not read either yet, but this year I am really trying to read with intention. Adding both. ☕📖
