Summary

“The Office of Historical Corrections” (162) is narrated by Cassie, who worked as a field agent for the Institute for Public History, a government public works project that corrected public historical facts. One day, Cassie went into a bakery and made a correction to a flyer containing an incorrect statement about the holiday of Juneteenth. She then asked for a recommendation for a birthday cake for Daniel, a man she was seeing but claimed not to be officially dating. An employee assured her that anything would be fine, and Cassie chose a cake. Cassie had quit her job as a college professor to work at the IPH. The IPH was disliked by libertarian groups. They were also opposed by the “Free Americans” (173), a white supremacist group.

When Cassie returned to the institute office, the director informed her that they had “a...