The United States is a country with a desperate need for understanding its own history. We have been fed lies and half-truths, forced to celebrate traitors, and turned against one another on false premises. In this time of overlapping crises — a mismanaged pandemic, police brutality, climate change, etc. — learning history offers us a way to be grounded in our common story. This time is a moment of extraordinary opportunity¹ when people are eager to learn and need to understand how to work together. We want to engage with that hunger and have four years of unique experience to bring to the task. [1]1
