rivkat: Dean reading (dean reading)
( Jan. 18th, 2021 04:36 pm)
Peter Kolchin, Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdomfascinating comparisons )

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding SweetgrassNative biology )
John Harris, The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passagethe slave trade's end )
David Grann, The Lost City of Zcolonial dreams )
Silvana Condemi & François Savatier, A Pocket History of Human Evolution: How We Became Sapienswhat it says on the tin )
David Schneider, The Invention of Surgerynot really what it says on the tin )
Hallie Rubenhold, The FiveJack the Ripper's victims )
Adam Tooze, The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931the economic consequences of the peace )
Kate Brown, Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Futureyikes )
David McCullough, The Wright Brotherstwo guys )
Richard White, Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern Americarailroads and ripoffs )
Thomas Richards, Jr., Breakaway Americas: The Unmanifest Future of the Jacksonian United Statesunfixed 1840s )
Brent Goldfarb & David A. Kirsch, Bubbles and Crasheswhat's a bubble? )
W. Caleb McDaniel, Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in Americaa woman's unequal fight )
Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascismtrying to define fascism )
rivkat: Dean reading (dean reading)
( Oct. 11th, 2019 02:25 pm)
Jeanne Theoharis, A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History: control the past )
Margaret O'Mara, The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America: slight )
Karen L. Cox, Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South: true crime )
Randall Munroe, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems: what it says on the tin )

Cecilia Aragon & Katie Davis, Writers in the Secret Garden: Fanfiction, Youth, and New Forms of Mentoring: big data )
Linda E. Fisher & Judith Fox, The Foreclosure Echo: How the Hardest Hit Have Been Left Out of the Economic Recovery: so much to be angry about )

Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist: behavior first, belief after )

David I. Kertzer, The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe: willing helpers )

Karen Armstrong, Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence: religion's not so murderous )


Daniel K. Richter, Before the Revolution: America’s Ancient Pasts: prehistory as history )

Fredrik Logevall, Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam: tragedy )

David Grann, The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: highly committed people )

Kristin L. Hoganson, The Heartland: An American History:heartland as interchange )

Gary Krist, Empire of Sin: New Orleans )

David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBIslow motion genocide )
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