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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. Quote of the Day: "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) Take the Ann Coulter Quiz Where are you politically? Take the Neocon Quiz and find out. "History is Far too Important to be left to History Professors" Teaching isn't such a novel idea
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History of Disease Contemporary Terrorist Organizations Map of Islamic Terrorist Cells in the U.S.A.
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Graduate Readings
Statute of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising The following books will be used in HI710. All of the books can be located in any academic library or via online book finders listed below. The class itself will meet at a specific time and place mutually agreed upon by students and professor. Graduate students do not have to attend the lecture section, but may wish to attend the film screenings. Graduate students will be evaluated on their level of discussion and one comprehensive book review essay over the nine books listed below and one additional book of their choice. How to write a comprehensive book review essay? Check with the New York Review of Books and follow their format or the model I have listed on my Age of Empire course. Titles: Christopher Browning. The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942. Nebraska, 2004. 0-8032-1327-1 Donald McKale. Hitler’s Shadow War: The Holocaust and World War II. Cooper Square Press, 2002. ISBN: 0-8154-1211-8. Neil Bladwin. Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hatred. Public Affairs, 2003. 1-58648-163-0 Peter Gay. My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin. Yale, 1998. ISBN: 0300080700 David I. Kertzer. The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican’s Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism. Vintage, 2002. ISBN: 0375706054 Christopher Browning. Ordinary Men. (Already ordered for the undergrad section) Deborah Lipstadt. Denying The Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. Free Press, 1993 ISBN: 0452272742 Robert N. Proctor. Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under The Nazis. Harvard, 1988. ISBN: 0674745787 Stefan Kuhl. The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism. Oxford, 1994. ISBN: 0195149785
The books can be purchased online via Abebooks, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, E. R. Hamilton, BookFinders, Bibliofind, and the Town Crier in Emporia and the Memorial Union Bookstore and the Text Book Corner.
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