A few of you have asked me about some possible history/cultural studies books to read outside of class. Below you will find a list of some various books.
Books by David McCullough:
John Adams
1776
Books by Ronald Takaki:
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
Race at the End of History
Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans
A Pro-Slavery Crusade
Violence in the Black Imagination
Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th-Century America
Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb
Debating Diversity: Clashing Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America
A Larger Memory: A History of Our Diversity with Voices
Books by Howard Zinn:
A People's History of the United States: 1492 – Present
Postwar America: 1945 – 1971
Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal
Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century
SNCC: The New Abolitionists
A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
Other Books:
A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present by Ward Churchill
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
