To Kill A Mockingbird - useful?

1984 taught me nothing about the time period in question. I ended up failing my history exam.

The Simpsons had so many jokes crammed into it's first four seasons, I f**king love it.

My parents taught me not to judge based on ethnicity/religion waaaay before I was forced to pretend to read 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.

It's actually a really good book