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From empires to coups, from propaganda to Native history, Jermaine Fowler of The Humanity Archive offers a reading list of books that will make you "impossible to lie to" thehumanityarchive.substack.com/p/these-his...

thehumanityarchive.substack.comThese History Books Will Make You Impossible to Lie ToHow power actually works, who got erased, and where we go next. Mainstream history can be rewritten. The books on the shelf in your house cannot.

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Appreciate this list. I read "Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen." My maternal grandparents from Scotland were part of the sugar plantation. Grandpa there in '25, grandma in '31. Mother born in '34. I learned to despise what "we" did to the Hawaiians. I am deeply sorry for what "my" people did there.

I’d consider adding a section critical of organized religious groups and cults but also about the history of religions as well. They always seem to get a pass but play a major role in many of the injustices your other sections focus on.

So where's the "Party User Manual" that describes where Dem party mney comes from; why Schumer gets to decide what candidate gets the cash, and how to find out who the elites and inflluencers are? Someone, please write it.

I saw this for 28 years as a reading specialist — the kids who worked with primary sources stopped taking headlines at face value. Archives don't just teach history, they teach discernment.