Americanon Author Jess McHugh asks “Who gets to tell the American Story?”
By: Jess McHugh Who gets to tell the American story? That was the question that preoccupied me in the years of researching and writing Americanon. I was fascinated by the ways in which commonplace books, owned by millions of Americans—from almanacs to primers to cookbooks—shaped and reshaped American identity over generations of reading.
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