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Behind the textbooks are stranger truths, forgotten heroes, presidential scandals, and moments that changed the world without ever making the history tests.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAmerica Untold 250th Anniversary: 125 Surprising Facts on the Presidents, the Culture, and the People History Forgot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVolume Two\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e of the series built for America's biggest milestone. If Volume One showed how America was built, this book reveals \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewhat it actually became\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInside, you'll discover:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhy Theodore Roosevelt kept speaking for 90 minutes after being shot in the chest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and the crowd loved every second of it\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow hip-hop was born at a Bronx birthday party in 1973\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to raise money for school clothes, and went on to become the most globally influential American cultural export of the century\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e that destroyed the wealthiest Black community in America, and was erased from Oklahoma's history books for decades\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe NASA \"human computers\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e whose calculations made spaceflight possible while history forgot their names\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat Abraham Lincoln kept inside his stovepipe hat\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and what was in it the night he was killed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhy Elvis did not invent rock and roll\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and who actually did\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Chinese-American cook whose 1898 Supreme Court case still defines birthright citizenship today\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe real numbers behind America at 250\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: the wealth gaps, the war record, the Nobel prizes, and what it all says about the next 250 years\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eThis is not a textbook.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e It is a collection of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e125 windows into the real America\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, carefully researched stories chosen because they are surprising, true, and impossible to forget. Some will make you proud. Some will make you angry. A few will make you sit quietly with the complexity of a nation that produced both the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDeclaration of Independence\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTrail of Tears\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in the same century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFast to read. 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