tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88028680551220197312024-03-13T22:41:01.432-07:00Books Students of US History Should Read, ContinuedAmericanStudierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06483077716534996778noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802868055122019731.post-90316337548054050992013-12-30T07:45:00.002-08:002013-12-30T07:45:56.094-08:0010 Books Every Student of US History Should Read: Ben's Sequel[Recently, historian John Judis published <a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/node/116042/">a piece in <em>The New Republic</em></a> listing "Ten Books Any Student of American History Must Read." By Judis' own admission, the list focused on particular topics and areas; it also happened to include no books published after 1988 (and only two from the 1980s), and featured only white male authors. All ten books on Judis' list are well worth your time, but inspired by those absences, as well as by ongoing Twitter conversations about the list, I decided to start the ball rolling on alternate lists, ones featuring more recent works, more multi-gendered and -ethnic ones, and generally other approaches to American history and culture that would complement but enrich the original list.<br />
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This is simply my list of nominees, all pulled from my shelves. Most are from post-1988, with two noteworthy 1970s works thrown in. I'd love to hear everybody else's suggestions too, whether in comments or in posts of your own (whether on your blog or, if you'd like, sent to me and posted here).]<br />
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<u><span style="font-family: Calibri;">10 More Books Any Student of American History Must Read:</span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Arthur Barbeau and Florette Henri, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Unknown Soldiers: African-American Troops in World War I</i>
(1974).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">John Kasson, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Amusing
the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century</i> (1978).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Lizabeth Cohen, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Making
a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939</i> (1990).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Susan Glenn, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Daughters
of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation</i> (1990).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">George Sanchez, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Becoming
Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles,
1900-1945</i> (1993).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ronald Takaki, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A
Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America</i> (1993).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">James Goodman, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stories
of Scottsboro</i> (1994).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Judy Yung, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Unbound
Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco</i> (1995).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Karl Jacoby, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shadows
at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History</i> (2008).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Robin Bernstein, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil
Rights</i> (2011).</span>AmericanStudierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06483077716534996778noreply@blogger.com3