One of the first things I thought in the first section of this book was "Oh, the book banners would have a field day with this." Haha. Because the tone is set from the first page; this is a book that isn't going to flinch away from the hard stuff in US history, the stuff that they don't want kids to learn about. The fact that the first section is about how they censored history books in the south like that isn't still happening at this very moment? So relevant.

The combination of text and images make this an engaging read as well as an educational one. I think I learned something new in each section, and it really all connected back to what's currently happening in the United States. Pair this with something like Stamped (the YA edition) and you'd have a really solid US history class. It has that appeal for teens while packing in a lot of excellent information. And I hope it can make it to where it needs to be.