We must cease casting fellow Americans as internal enemies.

Americans have a penchant for selective memory. This forgetfulness imperils our future.

Black man’s cow, white man’s milk.

“This is going to get real ugly real fast,” Marty Bahamonde of FEMA wrote in a text message to his bosses two days before Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans. It appeared to Bahamonde that no one was really listening to him. His assumption was correct.

As an aspiring historian, I wondered how much a graphic memoir could teach me about “doing” history.

Wartime relations and associations — beneficial and misaligned — form the core of “The Foundling,” an inestimably entertaining two-volume series by Michel Déon.