America

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Our critic said the six parts “offer something of an alternative account of how America came to be, with a bit of myth-busting along the way.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

"I never thought I'd see the day in America where reality show participation wins out over being a police officer," Mayor J. William Reynolds said.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

People suffered and worked endlessly, but after the riots, they realized that the lives they had been living in America were not truly immigrant lives in the full sense.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

America flirts with it and folds, every single cycle.

From Slate • Jun. 6, 2026

In 1851, guided by the strength of Kate’s mediumship at further séances, Partridge and about twenty other men and women established one of the first organized Spiritualist groups in America.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock