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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)

Was the 2004 Election Stolen?

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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Age of Despotism

Age of Total War

Current  History

Dictators and Dems

DDE in War & Peace

Splendid Little Wars

Terrorism Online

World War II Online

Bibliography: History of Disease

Bioterrorism

Contemporary Terrorist Organizations

How to Write an Essay

Map of Islamic Terrorist Cells in the U.S.A.

PowerPoint Notes

Reaction Papers

TASK Information Updates

Terrorism Cybrary

Terrorism Filmography

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Online History of Terrorism

Texts for HI 300ZA and HI 700XA

Author Title Publisher/Publication Date
Lawrence Wright The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Knopf, 2006 ISBN: 037541486X
Walter Laqueur The New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction Oxford, 2000 (Paper)
William Broad, Judith Miller, and Stephen Engelberg Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War Touchstone Books, 2002. (Paper)
Robert A. Pape Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism

Random House, 2005 ISBN: 0812973380

 
George Michael The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Converge of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right

Kansas, 2006. ISBN: 0700614443

 
Michael Scheuer Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terrorism

Bassey’s, 2004.  ISBN: 1574888625

 

Most of these books can be checked out from a library in your hometown. See the hyperlink for the library that has those books near you. Kansas Blue Skyways offers students the opportunity to use the Kansas Library Catalog in order to locate books across the state by the click of your mouse.

To purchase the books in Emporia, you can use either the Memorial Union Bookstore on campus in the Student Union or the off campus bookshop at the Textbook Corner.  Likewise, student can go online at Abebooks, halfprice.com,  and Amazon as well as E. R. Hamilton Booksellers to compare prices with the  online book services.