History isn’t neutral. It never has been. And in this moment, telling the truth is an act of resistance.

A RESISTANCE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES is now available for pre-order.

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Tad Stoermer is a public historian, teacher, and author of A Resistance History of the United States (Steerforth Press / Penguin Random House, 2026).

With more than 550,000 followers across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, he is one of the most widely followed public historians in the world—reaching millions each month. His work has become a trusted source for those trying to cut through misinformation and confront the real history that shapes American power.

His approach dismantles the mythologies that pass for American history, exposing the curated nostalgia, moral evasions, and institutional silences that have long protected abusive power. His work confronts the past on its own terms, without the comforting filters that make hard truths easier to ignore.

A Resistance History of the United States explores the moments when people refused the stories meant to justify authority. That defiance took many forms: the women and men in Salem who would not confess to witchcraft; the Black Loyalists who seized their own freedom during the Revolutionary War; the Anti‑Federalists who forced a Bill of Rights to limit nationalist power. Later generations carried their refusal into new terrain—Ona Judge’s escape from enslavement, Henry David Thoreau’s challenge to the state, the clandestine networks of the Underground Railroad, and the uncompromising resolve of John Brown and the Six, whose actions helped push the nation toward civil war and set the stage for the Radical Republicans’ fight to build a new republic from the ruins.

The book treats these episodes not as steps in a march of progress, but as hard‑earned lessons—a usable set of strategies for confronting the abuse of power in our own time.

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