Category: HIST 120
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Fall 2017 Book Orders
Below are the required texts for my courses for the upcoming semester. For students, please note that these texts will be on reserve at Whittemore Library, and that I do not permit the use of electronic editions. HIST 120 American Lives Melba Pattillo Beals, Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little…
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Fall 2016 Book Orders
Below are the required texts for my courses for the upcoming semester. For students, please note that these texts will be on reserve at Whittemore Library, and that I do not permit the use of electronic editions. HIST 120 American Lives Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2015). ISBN: 978-0-812-99354-7…
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Over-Identification and the History of the Present
Historians frequently identify with their subjects, but that gets complicated when the subject is in the same age cohort as the historian. I explore what that means based on reading a recent memoir.
Joseph M. Adelman 