The 1619 Project is another great resource. Also, podcasts!! So many really really good podcasts. Currently listening to Revolutions by Mike Duncan - currently in the French Revolution season. I have very mixed feelings about calling for a guillotine now haha.

The People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn is a great start. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee and An Indigenous People's History of the United States are great indigenous history resources. How the Word is Passed spans centuries of enslaved stories through a modern day scope.

I also think it's a case study of why we should all journal with pen and paper at least a few times a week. We are ALL source material for our future historians and anthropologists.

Oh man, this basically *is* my lifespan and I 100% see the arc retrospectively. I vacillate between deep disappointment at the two generations before me and enormous hope for the generations after me. And fighting like hell to keep the moral arc leaning towards justice.

The absolute restraint to NOT in that room is heroic in and of itself.

Yapping about freedom directly after saying what you'll restrict is a masterstroke of hypocrisy.

This!! I finished Hilary Mantel's "A Place of Greater Safety" and it's all I wanted/want to talk about, and like, no one else I know has read it or wants to talk about the French Revolution.