Is It Even Possible to Really ‘Know’ America? Yes

Through travel, studying history, listening to natives and immigrants

In 2018, upon returning to the United States after living abroad since 2009, I observed to my friend Bruce Johnson that, after nearly a decade away from America, I wondered if I even knew my home country any more. His response:

“What it is truly to ‘know’ a place is, like knowing a person, a profound question. Not only are our experiences limited, but we…