Angela Dodson’s and Michael Day’s We Have Been Here Before: How Rebellion and Activism Have Always Sustained America (Broadleaf, 2026) provides a compelling counternarrative on the history of enslaved, disenfranchised, and subjugated people in our nation. Through an examination of constitutional laws, newspapers, decrees, letters, fiction, poetry, and firsthand testimonies, readers gain an understanding of an American narrative that is much more complicated than the narratives we see in the history books of our educational institutions.