History wasn't like that.

[thanate]

My child is being marketed too, quite effectively, because we'll get these books out of the library and then there are pictures of other books on the backs, and then she'll ask me to put them on hold, too. And so we ended up with a handful of American history stories that wouldn't otherwise have been on anyone's radar (two westward expansion, one

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[alecaustin]

Ugh, yeah the ahistorical nature of princess/royalty narratives (to say nothing of '50s social patterns being projected backwards in time) is maddening. Not how it worked, people! Not even a little bit.