How I Learned to Love American History

Reading about the history of this country has allowed me to love it, even as I recognize its flaws.

Dr. Thomas J. West III
8 min readMar 6, 2020

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For a long time, I found American history truly tedious to read. Oh, sometimes I’d pick up a book about an American historical figure, and find that I enjoyed it (such was the case with David McCullougah’s biography of John Adams)…

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Dr. Thomas J. West III

Ph.D. in English | Film and TV geek | Lover of fantasy and history | Full-time writer | Feminist and queer | Liberal scold and gadfly