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Freshman level

Introduction to the Ottoman Empire HIST 1561

  • A Short History of the Ottoman Empire by RenĂ©e Worringer
  • The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk

African American History from 1865 HIST 1595

  • Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction & Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006 by Manning Marable

U.S. History through Literature HIST 1770

  • Quicksand by Nella Larsen
  • ✔ Hiroshima by John Hersey
  • ✔ The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (my highlights)
  • Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria AnzaldĂșa
  • The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans

Recreating the Caribbean: Migration & Identity in Contemporary Caribbean History HIST 1976

  • A Concise History of the Caribbean by B.W. Higman

American History from 1500 to 1800 HIST 1985

  • American Colonies: The Settling of North America by Alan Taylor

Sophomore level

From the New Deal to the Age of Reagan HIST 2220

  • The Rise of Conservatism in America, 1945-2000 by Story & Laurie
  • Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
  • The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics by Jefferson Cowie
  • My Soul is Rested: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South by Howell Raines
  • Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line by Ben Hamper
  • Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism by Bruce Schulman
  • Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right by Lisa McGirr

Plague, Prisons & Print in 18th-century London HIST 2259

  • A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
  • The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay
  • The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City by William M. Cavert
  • Hubbub: Filth, Noise & Stench in England, 1600-1770 by Emily Cockayne

Histories of the African Diaspora HIST 2317

  • The Americans Are Coming!: Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa by Robert Trent Vinson
  • Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania & Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization by Monique A. Bedasse
  • All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles

From Terra Incognita to Territories of Nation-States: Early American History in Two Dozen Maps HIST 2391

  • Mapping the Nation: History & Cartography in 19th-Century America by Susan Schulten
  • How to Lie with Maps by Mark Monmonier

Medicine & Healing in China HIST 2562

  • Chinese Medicine & Healing by Hinrichs & Barnes
  • Early Chinese Medical Literature: The Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts by Donald Harper

Ancient Greek History HIST 2650

  • A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society & Culture by Pomeroy et al.

American Political Thought HIST 2655

  • The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
  • The Federalist by Hamilton et al.
  • American Political Thought by Kramnick & Lowi
  • Lincoln: Political Writings & Speeches

The American Revolutionary Era HIST 2665

  • American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 by Alan Taylor

The History & Politics of Modern Egypt HIST 2672

  • Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture by Ziad Fahmy
  • Modern Egypt: The Formation Of A Nation State by Arthur Goldschmidt Jr.

Sex, Drugs & Experimenting with Democracy in 1960s & 1970s America HIST 2680

  • America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s by Isserman & Kazin

Mughal India & the Early Modern World, c. 1500-1800 HIST 2749

  • A Short History of the Mughal Empire by Michael H. Fisher
  • The Empires of the Near East & India: Source Studies of the Safavid, Ottoman & Mughal Literate Communities by Hani Khafipour
  • The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince & Emperor

Ten Technologies That Shook the World? HIST 2881

  • Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm
  • Technology Matters: Questions to Live With by David E. Nye

Junior level

Remembering Socialism: Literature & Film After the End of History HIST 3012

  • Free: A Child & a Country at the End of History by Lea Ypi
  • Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin
  • The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia by Ludmilla Petrushevskay
  • Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
  • The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugresic

Women, War & Peace in Europe, 1900-1950 HIST 3662 (su26)

  • A History of Fascism, 1914–1945 by Stanley G. Payne
  • An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-43
  • Behind the Lines: Gender & the Two World Wars by Higonnet et al.
  • Changing Lives: Women in European History Since 1700 by Bonnie G. Smith
  • Fascism and the Right in Europe 1919-1945 by Martin Blinkhorn
  • Letters From Westerbork by Etty Hillesum
  • Lives & Voices: Sources in European Women’s History by DiCaprio & Wiesner
  • Partisan Diary: A Woman’s Life in the Italian Resistance by Ada Gobetti
  • Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
  • Women in 20th-Century Europe by Ann Taylor Allen

Monsoon Kingdoms: Pre-Modern Southeast Asian History HIST 3950/6950

  • A History of Early Southeast Asia: Maritime Trade & Societal Development, 100–1500 by Kenneth R. Hall
  • Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680: v.2, Expansion & Crisis by Anthony Reid

Senior level

Intro. to Historical Research HIST 4000

  • Silencing the Past: Power & the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
  • Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War by Vincent Brown
  • Firsting & Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England by Jean M. O’Brien
  • American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750–1865 by Jeremy Zallen

Contesting Identities in Modern Egypt HIST 4091

  • Sacred Language, Ordinary People: Dilemmas of Culture & Politics in Egypt by Niloofar Haeri
  • Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture by Ziad Fahmy
  • Karnak CafĂ© by Naguib Mahfouz
  • A Border Passage: From Cairo to America – A Woman’s Journey by Leila Ahmed
  • Industrial Sexuality: Gender, Urbanization & Social Transformation in Egypt by Hanan Hammad
  • An Incurable Past: Nasser’s Egypt Then and Now by MĂ©riam N. Belli
  • Egypt in the Future Tense: Hope, Frustration, and Ambivalence before & after 2011 by Samuli Schielke
  • Identifying with Nationality: Europeans, Ottomans & Egyptians in Alexandria by Will Hanley
  • Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato by Anny Gaul

Contesting Votes: Democracy & Citizenship Throughout U.S. History HIST 4203

  • The Second Founding: How the Civil War & Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner

Environmental Justice: Past, Present, Future HIST 4262

  • Discourse on Colonialism by AimĂ© CĂ©saire
  • The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
  • Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors & the Legacy of DES by Nancy Langston
  • As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
  • The Commons in History: Culture, Conflict & Ecology by Derek Wall
  • The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water & the American Urban Tragedy by Anna Clark
  • Climate Futures: Reimagining Global Climate Justice by Bhavnani et al.

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