Listed here are selections from my recent readings — primarily from classes, research, and items of personal academic interest. I will update this page regularly as my current reading list changes.
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- The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power
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- Rhodes: The Race for Africa
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- The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe
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- Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite
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- Lust for Liberty: The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 1200-1425 – Samuel K. Cohn
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- Moral Minority – David Swartz
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- What is Cultural History – Peter Burke
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- The Day Wall Street Exploded – Beverly Gage
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- The Landscape of History – John Gaddis
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- What is History? – E.H. Carr
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- Marx and the Disillusionment of Marxism – Walter Adamson
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- The Real Eve: Modern Man’s Journey Out of Africa – Stephen Oppenheimer
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- Embattled Avant-gardes: Modernism’s Resistance to Commodity Culture in Europe – Walter Adamson
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- I’m the Teacher, You’re the Student – Patrick Allitt
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- Jesus Sound Explosion – Mark Anderson
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- Corresponding with Carlos – Charles Barber
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- Post War – Tony Judt
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- FDR and the Spanish Civil War – Dominic Tierney
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- The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade – Peter Carroll
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- The Good Fight Continues – ed. Peter Carroll
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- The Communist Party of the United States – Fraser Ottanelli
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- The Spanish Civil War – Hugh Thomas
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- Forgotten Radicals: Communists in Pennsylvania Anthracite – Walter Howard
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- Comrades and Commissars – Cecil Eby
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- By the Ore Docks: A Working People’s History of Duluth – Richard Hudelson and Carl Ross
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- Radical Nostalgia: Spanish Civil War Commemoration in America – Pete Glazer
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- Iron Curtain – Anne Applebaum
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- The Historian’s Craft – Marc Bloch
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- The Dynamite Club – John Merriman
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- The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History – Robert Darnton
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- The Human Faces of God – Thom Stark
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- The Lonely Cold War of Pius XII – Peter Kent
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- Pius XII, the Holocaust, and the Cold War – Michael Phayer
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