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“Americans often 'forget; that our history is not a Whiggish progress toward greater and greater freedom and equality but a far more complex story in which gains are made and last, rights are expanded and sometimes revoked, and ideas long since discredited rise like ghosts to haunt later generations. If our history teaches anything, it is that the question 'Who is an American?' has never had a fixed or simple answer.”
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“If history teaches anything, it is that freedom is not achieved in a day; nor, once achieved, does it necessarily last forever. The price of maintaining freedom, as an Irish judge commented two centuries age, is 'eternal vigilance.”
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“History can degenerate into nostalgia for an imaginary golden age, or inspire a Utopian quest to erase the past altogether. And it can force people to think differently about their society by bringing to light unpleasant truths.”
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Reading In Between The Lines YA Book Club
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This is a book club for young adults. You can discuss the books you read and even participate in reading challenges, buddy reads, group reads and book ...more
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This group is for people participating in the Popsugar reading challenge for 2026 (or any other year). The Popsugar website posted a reading challenge ...more
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