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Originally Posted by Gioco
If you want something with a specific point of view and likely very different from what you heard in h.s., try Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, it's unfair and unbalanced but it's a counterpoint to the equally unfair and unbalanced property party fairy tale most people have heard for most of their lives.
I like that this is your suggestion for "light reading"
cliff notes.
Tyranny
Some folks stand up to tyranny
Those folks get murdered, but in jail, beat up, etc
time passes
The thing those folks tried to stand up to, gets reversed
For current events version, see the North Dakota Pipeline
If it was 100 years ago, those people would be dead already, and the pipeline would be going just fine.