Now that I am approaching my graduation date I wanted to take a moment to reflect on four years of undergraduate study. I was inspired by Dan Allosso's index of books to think about all of the books I've had to read in my college classes. Though one day I may expand on them as Mr. Allosso has, I figured a list would suffice for now. Thankfully, for your eyes and mine, I'm not going to list all of the articles I read from academic journals.
Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent by Larry Berman
My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns by Jane Tompkins
Vietnam: A Portrait of Its People at War by David Chanoff
The Virginian by Owen Wister
The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890 by Robert Utley
The Challenge of Rethinking History Education: On Practices, Theories and Policy by Bruce VanSledright
Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel
Ho by David Halberstam
Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie by John Faragher
Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus: What Your History Books Got Wrong by James Loewen
Doing Comparative Politics: An Introduction to Approaches and Issues by Timothy Lim
Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760-1791 edited by Richard Brown
Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century by Mark Mazower
The River Runs Salt, Runs Sweet: A Memoir of Visegrad, Bosnia by Jasmina Dervisevic-Cesic
The American Revolution: A History by Gordon S. Wood
The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776-2007 5th edition, Sidney Milkis
A Pocket Guide to Writing in History by Mary Lynn Rampolla
A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945 by Antony Beever
Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment by Anthony Lewis
Benjamin and William Franklin: Father and Son, Patriot and Loyalist by Sheila Skemp
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography by Robert Graves
Wartime by Paul Fussell
After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection by James West Davidson
The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman
Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman
Ama by Manu Herbstein
Electroboy by Andy Behrman
The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race and War in the Nineteenth Century by Martha Hodes
Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919 by Nell Irvin Painter
Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848 by Bernard Moitt
Mastery, Tyranny and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World by Trevor Burnard
The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition by W.J. Rorabaugh
Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776 by Jon Butler
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy by Kevin Bales
It's interesting to see what people have read in the course of studying history. It will be even more interesting, if you add comments.
ReplyDeleteIt's often really difficult, figuring out what books you need to read in a given "field," for MA or PhD oral exams -- and faculty often leave you to your own devices. Some sort of rite of passage, I guess. So it helps to see what others have read and responded to.