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‘Real Americans’ explores the pressure to be exceptional

In Kentucky, the oldest Black independent library is still making history

Slavery isn’t just a Southern story. The North benefited from stolen labor.

A primer on climate change that tackles both hope and despair

The Monitor’s 10 best new books of April

Doris Kearns Goodwin recalls 1960s idealism in ‘An Unfinished Love Story’

‘Women Behind the Wheel’ punctures the idea that driving meant freedom

Anne Lamott preaches to her choir in ‘Somehow: Thoughts on Love’

Poet Natasha Trethewey delves into memory in ‘The House of Being’

‘Wandering Stars’ explodes the nation’s myths about Native Americans