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Ole: I was decent at school and my best subject was maths, so if I wasn't a footballer I probably would be an accountant or something with numbers or maths.

Ms. McGarr, who teaches at University of Wisconsin-Madison, is often acerbic about her subjects but notes that they were “awash in patriotic fervor at the same time that they were distrustful and cynical.”

The office will provide schools with materials about preventing discrimination, and work with districts that have been the subject of complaints from students, families or the public.

The series takes an intentionally measured approach to its subjects with “a humanistic perspective,” he says.

In the body of the book, he alludes to the subject, promising to tell more later.