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Updated as of 2 October 05

Today in History:

On October 2, 1780, Major John André, a British spy associated with Benedict Arnold, was executed on this day in history. 

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"In my view we are much worse off now than when we went into Iraq. This is not a partisan position. I voted for these guys."

A senior figure at a military-sponsored think tank as told to James Fallows in "Bush's Lost Year" in The Atlantic Monthly (Oct. 2004)

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Age of Revolution

"Liberty leading the People"  by Eugene Delacroix

Author Title Publisher
David Hackett Fischer Washington's Crossing Oxford, 2004
David P. Jordan The King's Trial: Louis XVI vs. the French Revolution California, 1979
David Andress The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006

The professor will supply the following books; however, the books have to be returned to the professor at the end of the semester. Everyone will read the John C. Miller book on The Origins of the American Revolution, but they will select one of the books by either Garry Wills or Carl Becker for their fifth read.

Carl Becker The Declaration of Independence Vintage, 1922
John C. Miller* The Origins of the American Revolution Stanford, 1943
Garry Wills Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence Houghton Mifflin, 1978
Garry Wills "Negro President": Thomas Jefferson and the Slave Power Houghton Mifflin, 2003

The books can be purchased either at the Memorial Union Bookstore on campus in the Student Union or off campus at the Textbook Corner.  Likewise, student can go online at Abebooks  and Amazon as well as E. R. Hamilton Booksellers to compare prices with the  online book services.