Kate Reber

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I begin a 2-year International Baccalaureate History program with the first four chapters of A People’s History of the United States as assigned summer reading. We talk about what “America” is and whose voices are in the curriculum from day one.

This text sets up my advanced course — a history of America that raises voices and questions — about many unrecognized peoples.

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