“An ambitious freshman congresswoman demanded funding to put a public historian in every zip code in the country, a correction for what she called the contemporary crisis of truth. It was pitched as a new public works project for the intellectual class, so many of us lately busy driving cars and delivering groceries and completing tasks on demand to make ends meet. Government jobs would put all those degrees to work and be comparatively lucrative. The congresswoman envisioned a national network of fact-checkers and historians, a friendly citizen army devoted to making the truth so accessible and appealing it could not be ignored.” TruthPoliticsHistoryLiesCorrectionsHistoriansFact Checking Book:The Office of Historical Corrections Source: The Office of Historical Corrections
“Besides the tablecloths, the decor is all old photographs and postcards that they scrounged up from wherever, because you know how white people love their history right up until it's true.” TruthHistoryWhitesPostcardsPhotographs Book:The Office of Historical Corrections Source: The Office of Historical Corrections
“I distrusted, in general, appeals to nostalgia--I loved the past of archives, but there was no era of the past I had any inclination to visit with my actual human body, being rather fond of it having at least minimal rights and protections.” PastHistoryNostalgia Book:The Office of Historical Corrections Source: The Office of Historical Corrections