Today, I started reading How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr. I will admit that I'm a bit raw because my sister is in the hospital, but JFC, this is brutal!
Between what we weren't told as kids and details on things that we were sort of told, it's incredibly informative and interesting, but I can't stop crying about things in it.
Like, I never knew the Philippines had been an American territory.
Also, the Japanese in WWII... yeah, what a serious lesson in what happens when you dehumanize the people on the other side. I mean, sure, the NAZIs did it too, don't get me wrong, but I knew more about the European theater in WWII.