Discover U.S. history through our curated selection of texts and discuss how our nation's history and our understandings of the past inform the present.
This week's text is A Country Called Amreeka by Alia Malek. Please register online here by March 26.
From the publisher: "The history of Arab settlement in the United States stretches back nearly as far as the history of America itself. For the first time, Alia Malek brings this history to life. In each of eleven spellbinding chapters, she inhabits the voice and life of one Arab American, at one time-stopping historical moment. Separately, the chapters in A Country Called Amreeka transport us; together, they offer a vital piece of the mosaic of our American history and a fresh, urgent, and exciting perspective on a teeming community whom it has become essential for us to understand."
Schedule:
Ages 16 and up.
Fee: $8 (resident) / $10 (non-resident). Drop-ins are welcome as space permits once minimum enrollment is met.
Call the museum at (847) 929-8001 or email eengland@skokieparks.org with questions.
Upcoming texts will be Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein, and America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today by Pamela Nadell.