What We Are Reading Today: America Redux by Ariel Aberg-Riger

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Updated 27 June 2023
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What We Are Reading Today: America Redux by Ariel Aberg-Riger

In “America Redux,” Ariel Aberg-Riger explores the themes that create our shared sense of American identity and interrogates the myths we’ve been telling ourselves for centuries. 

With iconic American catchphrases as chapter titles, the book’s twenty-one visual stories illuminate the astonishing, unexpected, sometimes darker sides of history that reverberate in our society to this very day.

Fully illustrated with collaged archival photographs, maps, documents, graphic elements, and handwritten text, this book is a dazzling, immersive experience that jumps around in time and will make you view history in a whole different light.


What We Are Reading Today: Getting to Reparations by Dorothy A. Brown

Updated 12 February 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: Getting to Reparations by Dorothy A. Brown

Dorothy A. Brown’s “Getting to Reparations” makes a logical and necessary case for reparations to atone for America’s original sin of slavery. It lays out a path as to how this might be achieved, built on the frameworks used throughout US history by the government to pay restitution. The idea of reparations is not a new or original one; it is one that is baked into American history and it is now time to do the same for America’s Black population.