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Looking for US history books for kids that aren't terrible (hexbear.net)
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My wife mentioned that her aunt wanted to buy our kids some history books. Come to find out, it was the fucking Tuttle Twins take on US history. I shot that down pretty quick, but realized my kids have zero US history books on their shelf. Because it's honestly really hard to find history books that don't, for example, glaze the founding fathers, downplay genocide and slavery, or portray the USSR as the "bad guys" in the cold war.

So I'm trying to find what I can, and it's a bit challenging. Most actual leftist history books for kids are more for that older kid / pre-teen age group, and my kids are still little. Does anyone know of some good US history books for kids? While I'd love an actual Marxist, historical materialist perspective, afaik no one's written that for little kids yet. I would settle for a more "liberal / progressive" take on US history so long as it's largely factual and avoids the reactionary crap most US history books for kids fall into.

I did find this Honest History Magazine that seems interesting, if anyone's familiar with it. They have a book on economics that from the little information provided, includes a correct definition of capitalism and talks about a time before capitalism, so right there it seems more correct that most.

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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

This is something I've thought about too. I know they make a version of A People's History called "A Young People's History of the United States" but like you mention, I think this book is for older kids. There is also "Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States: A Graphic Interpretation", which is a graphic interpretation (like graphic novel) of An Indigenous Peope's History of the United States by the same author. I'm not sure what else is out there.