History Courses For Dr. Christopher C. Lovett
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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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Books for The World Since 1945

Required Texts

Author Title Publisher
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan Harvard, 2005
Geraldine Brooks Nine Parts of Desire Doubleday/Anchor, 1995
Jung Chang and Jon Halliday Mao: The Unknown Story Anchor, 2005
Stephen Kinser All The Shah's Men John Wiley and Sons, 2004
Lawrence Wright The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Random House, 2006
Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali Khrushchev’s Cold War Norton, 2006
Naomi Klein The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Shock Capitalism Metropolitan Books, 2007

The books listed above are required. They can be checked out from your local library in your hometown or throughout the state of Kansas by using the appropriate hyperlink. Kansas Library Catalog will indicate where the book is located and perhaps can be found not far from your location.

The books can also be purchased at the Memorial Union Bookstore, the Textbook Corner, and the Town Crier Bookstore in down town Emporia. Likewise, students can go online at Abebooks, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and E. R. Hamilton Booksellers for cheap and affordable books for this course.