Continuing my series on books about the world of the 1400s - 1493! #365books
Tag: History
365 Books: 1421 by Gavin Menzies
A fun book that helps you see what was going on in China, while Europe was gearing up for Columbus... 365books.
365 Books: The Midnight Assassin by Skip Hollandsworth
Human memory is an amazing thing. The great influenza that occurred during WWI is common knowledge now. But one of the things that historians and disease-hunters found surprising when looking back in retrospect, was how thoroughly people had blotted the memory out of their minds. This was no flash in the pan, like the Legionnaires …
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365 Books: America Revised by Francis FitzGerald
I bought this book while I was in college and it inspired a paper that I wrote for a history class on the politics of textbooks and the representation of Native Americans in elementary school textbooks.* It was a sweeping paper, covering textbooks from colonial America through the present, and I spent many hours in …
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365 Books: The Decline & Fall of Practically Everybody by Will Cuppy
Do you like footnotes? I am, if you had not already noticed, partial to them. Not just using them (although I am clearly partial to that, too). Some people, when they read non-fiction, finish the meat of the book, maybe read the afterward or those discussion questions that some books include. Perhaps they dive into …
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