Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort as we continue exploring some of the books that are part of “Our American Story”—the books that detail the history of the United States and demonstrate that our nation is all of its people.
This week, we’ll wrap up our series of episodes on “Our American Story” by focusing on more groups and communities of American citizens and bringing their histories and present-day experiences to light with A New Deal for Bronzeville: Housing, Employment, and Civil Rights in Black Chicago, 1935-1955; Forgetting and the Forgotten: A Thousand Years of Contested Histories in the Heartland; The Irish in Illinois; Poles in Illinois; Germans in Illinois; and Dots & Dashes.