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Freshman level  
African American History from 1865
HIST 1595 (fa26)		 • Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction & Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006 by Manning Marable
U.S. History through Literature
HIST 1770 (fa26)		 • 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 Anzaldúa
• The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
American History from 1500 to 1800
HIST 1985 (fa26)		 • American Colonies: The Settling of North America by Alan Taylor
Sophomore level  
From Terra Incognita to Territories of Nation-States: Early American History in Two Dozen Maps
HIST 2391 (fa26)		 • Mapping the Nation: History & Cartography in 19th-Century America by Susan Schulten
• How to Lie with Maps by Mark Monmonier
American Political Thought
HIST 2655 (fa26)		 • 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 (fa26)		 • American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 by Alan Taylor
Junior level  
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

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