In her book 1619. L'autre naissance des Etats-Unis ("1619: The other birth of the United States"), published a few weeks after the start of Donald Trump's second term, Virginie Adane, a lecturer in modern history at the University of Nantes, examines the US president's relationship with history. The debates on the memory of slavery that she writes about show that competing narratives on the origin of the nation are key in the battle for democracy and equality being waged across the Atlantic. The same can be said about another book she is simultaneously publishing, Des femmes en Amérique ("On women in America").

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