Don's Book & DVD Selections for 2008 

As well as students in American history classes, many other Lane students use books on history, esp. writing and research classes, government, politics, ethnic studies, anthropology, and other social sciences. In addition, history books make up a huge proportion of the non-fiction published each year, and are popular as general reading for all our students.

Student audience: History, Writing, Community Education, General

1. 1858 : Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the war they failed to see / Bruce Chadwick

2. 1948 : a history of the first Arab-Israeli war / Benny Morris

3. 1967 : Israel, the war, and the year that transformed the Middle East / Tom Segev ; translated by Jessica Cohen

4. A brief history of the Netherlands / Paul F. State

5. A dangerous woman : the graphic biography of Emma Goldman / written and picturized by Sharon Rudahl ; edited by Paul Buhle

6. A history of modern Israel / Colin Shindler

7. A history of modern Tibet, 1913-1951 : the demise of the Lamaist state / Melvyn C. Goldstein ; with the help of Gelek Rimpoche

8. A history of the Habsburg Empire, 1526-1918 / Robert A. Kann

9. A magnificent catastrophe : the tumultuous election of 1800, America's first presidential campaign / Edward J. Larson

10. A military history of modern China : from the Manchu conquest to Tian'anmen Square / Peter Worthing

11. A soul on trial : a Marine Corps mystery at the turn of the twentieth century / Robin R. Cutler

12. A splendid exchange : how trade shaped the world / William J. Bernstein

13. A voyage long and strange : rediscovering the new world / Tony Horwitz

14. Against the president : dissent and decision-making in the White House : a historical perspective / by Mark J. White

15. Agent Zigzag : a true story of Nazi espionage, love, and betrayal / Ben MacIntyre

16. Alice : Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House princess to Washington power broker / Stacy A. Cordery

17. America in space : NASA's first fifty years / foreword by Neil Armstrong ; edited by Steven J. Dick ... [et al.] ; with the assistance of the NASA Chief Historian's Office and the NASA Photo Departments

18. American adventurism abroad : invasions, interventions, and regime changes since World War II / Michael J. Sullivan III

19. American Indian nonfiction : an anthology of writings, 1760s-1930s / edited by Bernd C. Peyer

20. American lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House / Jon Meacham

21. America's hidden history : untold tales of the first Pilgrims, fighting women, and forgotten founders who shaped a nation / Kenneth C. Davis

22. An introduction to the modern Middle East : history, religion, political economy, politics / David S. Sorenson

23. Archaeology and history in Sardinia from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages : shepherds, sailors, and conquerors / Stephen L. Dyson, Robert J. Rowland

24. Arsenals of folly : the making of the nuclear arms race / Richard Rhodes

25. Art from Fort Marion : the Silberman collection / Joyce M. Szabo

26. Barbarians to angels : the Dark Ages reconsidered / Peter S. Wells

27. Before Taliban : genealogies of the Afghan jihad / David B. Edwards

28. Bitterly divided : the South's inner Civil War / David Williams

29. Blood and volts : Edison, Tesla, and the electric chair / Th. Metzger

30. Boom! : voices of the sixties : personal reflections on the '60s and today / Tom Brokaw

31. Bringing the war home : the Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and revolutionary violence in the sixties and seventies / Jeremy Varon

32. California : a history / Andrew Rolle ; with Arthur Verge

33. California conquered : the annexation of a Mexican province, 1846-1850 / Neal Harlow

34. Casualty figures : how five men survived the First World War / Michèle Barrett

35. China's Tibet? : autonomy or assimilation / Warren W. Smith, Jr

36. Christmas : a candid history / Bruce David Forbes

37. City of stone : the hidden history of Jerusalem / Meron Benvenisti ; translated by Maxine Kaufman Nunn

38. Coffee : a dark history / Antony Wild

39. Conquests and historical identities in California, 1769-1936 / Lisbeth Haas

40. Conquistador : Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the last stand of the Aztecs / Buddy Levy

41. Contested Eden : California before the Gold Rush / edited by Ramón Gutiérrez, Richard J. Orsi

42. Contesting the German Empire, 1871-1918 / Matthew Jefferies

43. Crimes against nature : squatters, poachers, thieves, and the hidden history of American conservation / Karl Jacoby

44. Dangerous tastes : spices in world history / Andrew Dalby

45. Days of gold : the California Gold Rush and the American nation / Malcolm J. Rohrbough

46. Decades of crisis : Central and Eastern Europe before World War II / Ivan T. Berend

47. Decision in the heartland : the Civil War in the West / Steven E. Woodworth

48. Diasporas / Stéphane Dufoix ; translated by William Rodarmor ; with a foreword by Roger Waldinger

49. Did Lincoln own slaves? : and other frequently asked questions about Abraham Lincoln / Gerald J. Prokopowicz

50. Dinner at Mr. Jefferson's : three men, five great wines, and the evening that changed America / Charles Cerami

51. Dust : a history of the small and the invisible / Joseph A. Amato ; with a foreword by Jeffrey Burton Russell ; and illustrations by Abigail Rorer

52. Early India : from the origins to A.D. 1300 / Romila Thapar

53. Early modern Japan / Conrad Totman

54. Endgame, 1945 : the missing final chapter of World War II / David Stafford

55. Fascist modernities : Italy, 1922-1945 / Ruth Ben-Ghiat

56. FDR : the first hundred days / Anthony J. Badger

57. Friends of liberty : Thomas Jefferson, Tadeusz Ko_ciuszko, and Agrippa Hull : a tale of three patriots, two revolutions, and a tragic betrayal of freedom in the new nation / Gary B. Nash and Graham Russell Gao Hodges

58. From tyranny to anarchy : the Somali experience / Hussein M. Adam

59. Frontier medicine : from the Atlantic to the Pacific, 1492-1941 / David Dary

60. Gandhi & Churchill : the epic rivalry that destroyed an empire and forged our age / Arthur Herman

61. General Lee's army : from victory to collapse / Joseph T. Glatthaar

62. Good masters! Sweet Ladies! : voices from a medieval village / Laura Amy Schlitz ; illustrated by Robert Byrd

63. Gunfighters, highwaymen & vigilantes : violence on the frontier / Roger D. McGrath

64. Handbook to life in the Aztec world / Manuel Aguilar-Moreno

65. Havana nocturne : how the mob owned Cuba-- and then lost It to the revolution / T.J. English

66. Hidden heritage : the legacy of the Crypto-Jews / Janet Liebman Jacobs

67. History Derailed Central And Eastern Europe In The Long Nineteenth Century

68. History of the Goths / Herwig Wolfram ; translated by Thomas J. Dunlap

69. Ho / David Halberstam

70. Icon of evil : Hitler's mufti and the rise of radical Islam / David G. Dalin and John F. Rothmann

71. Imperial life in the emerald city : inside Iraq's green zone / Rajiv Chandrasekaran

72. In search of England : journeys into the English past / Michael Wood

73. In the footsteps of Marco Polo / Denis Belliveau and Francis O'Donnell

74. India after Gandhi : the history of the world's largest democracy / Ramachandra Guha

75. Indian views of the Custer fight : a source book / compiled and edited by Richard G. Hardorff

76. Inescapable ecologies : a history of environment, disease, and knowledge / Linda Nash

77. Insider/outsider : American Jews and multiculturalism / edited by David Biale, Michael Galchinsky, and Susannah Heschel

78. Instructions for American servicemen in Britain, 1942

79. Instructions for American servicemen in France during World War II / with a new foreword by Rick Atkinson

80. Introduction to fire in California / David Carle

81. Island world : a history of Hawai'i and the United States / Gary Y. Okihiro

82. King, Kaiser, Tsar Three Royal Cousins Who Led the World to War

83. Kosovo : how myths and truths started a war / Julie A. Mertus

84. Lenin's brain and other tales from the secret Soviet archives / by Paul R. Gregory

85. Liberal fascism : the secret history of the American left, from Mussolini to the politics of meaning / Jonah Goldberg

86. Life and death in the Third Reich / Peter Fritzsche

87. Little Heathens Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression

88. Louisiana : a history / Bennett H. Wall, editor ; by Light Townsend Cummins ... [et al.] ; with an introduction by John C. Rodrigue

89. Magic lands : western cityscapes and American culture after 1940 / John M. Findlay

90. Many middle passages : forced migration and the making of the modern world / edited by Emma Christopher, Cassandra Pybus, Marcus Rediker

91. Marxist modern : an ethnographic history of the Ethiopian revolution / Donald L. Donham

92. Massacre at Wickenburg : Arizona's greatest mystery / R. Michael Wilson

93. Medieval Iceland : society, sagas, and power / Jesse L. Byock

94. Mental-floss presents In the beginning : from big hair to the big bang, Mental-floss presents a mouthwatering guide to the origins of everything / edited by Mary Carmichael, Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur

95. Moorish Spain / Richard Fletcher

96. Moroland, 1899-1906 : America's first attempt to transform an Islamic society / Robert A. Fulton

97. Mr. Gatling's terrible marvel : the gun that changed everything and the misunderstood genius who invented it / Julia Keller

98. Napoleon's Egypt : invading the Middle East / Juan Cole

99. Nez Perce country / Alvin M. Josephy Jr. ; with an introduction by Jeremy FiveCrows

100. Nixonland : the rise of a president and the fracturing of America / Rick Perlstein

101. Norse warfare : the unconventional battle strategies of the ancient Vikings / Martina Sprague

102. On holiday : a history of vacationing / Orvar Löfgren

103. One thousand beards : a cultural history of facial hair / Allan Peterkin

104. Operation Broken Reed : Truman's secret North Korean spy mission that averted World War III / Arthur L. Boyd

105. Opium regimes : China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952 / edited by Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi

106. Option$ : the secret life of Steve Jobs : a parody / by Fake Steve Jobs

107. Out of our minds : reason and madness in the exploration of Central Africa : the Ad. E. Jensen lectures at the Frobenius Institut, University of Frankfurt / Johannes Fabian

108. Over the edge : remapping the American West / edited by Valerie J. Matsumoto and Blake Allmendinger

109. Panama fever : the epic story of one of the greatest human achievements of all time--the building of the of the Panama Canal / Matthew Parker

110. Panther soup : travels through Europe in war and peace / John Gimlette

111. Peasant and nation : the making of postcolonial Mexico and Peru / Florencia E. Mallon

112. Pirates, prostitutes and pullers : explorations in the Ethno- and social history of Southeast Asia / James Warren

113. Pollution in a promised land : an environmental history of Israel / Alon Tal

114. Prague in danger : the years of German occupation, 1939-45 : memories and history, terror and resistance, theater and jazz, film and poetry, politics and war / Peter Demetz

115. Reappraisals : reflections on the forgotten twentieth century / Tony Judt

116. Rethinking American history in a global age / edited by Thomas Bender

117. Rethinking home : a case for writing local history / Joseph A. Amato

118. Retribution : the battle for Japan, 1944-45 / Max Hastings

119. Russian and Soviet history : from the Time of Troubles to the collapse of the Soviet Union / edited by Steven A. Usitalo and William Benton Whisenhunt

120. Savage dreams : a journey into the landscape wars of the American West / Rebecca Solnit

121. Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans : indigenous education in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world / Margaret Connell Szasz

122. Setting the desert on fire : T.E. Lawrence and Britain's secret war in Arabia, 1916-1918 / James Barr

123. Short history of the french revolution

124. Soldier's heart : reading literature through peace and war at West Point / Elizabeth D. Samet

125. Stonehenge / Rosemary Hill

126. Sunset limited : the Southern Pacific Railroad and the development of the American West, 1850-1930 / Richard J. Orsi

127. Surviving freedom : after the Gulag / Janusz Bardach and Kathleen Gleeson

128. Swords for hire : the Scottish mercenary / James Miller

129. Taming the elephant : politics, government, and law in pioneer California / John F. Burns and Richard J. Orsi, editors ; illustrations editors Joshua Paddison and Teena Stern ; associate editor Marlene Smith-Baranzini

130. The accidental Indies / Robert Finley

131. The adventures of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim traveler of the 14th century / Ross E. Dunn

132. The age of American unreason / Susan Jacoby

133. The age of reconnaissance / J.H. Parry

134. The American century : a chronology and orientation (1900-2007) / David E. Nye & Thomas Johansen

135. The bloody shirt : terror after Appomattox / Stephen Budiansky

136. The Bourbons : the history of a dynasty / J.H. Shennan

137. The California deserts : an ecological rediscovery / Bruce M. Pavlik

138. The conquest of a continent : Siberia and the Russians / W. Bruce Lincoln

139. The day of the barbarians : the battle that led to the fall of the Roman Empire / Alessandro Barbero ; translated by John Cullen

140. The dead guy interviews : conversations with 45 of the most accomplished, notorious, and deceased personalities in history / Michael A. Stusser

141. The disinherited : exile and the making of Spanish culture, 1492-1975 / Henry Kamen

142. The duchess / Amanda Foreman

143. The far reaches of empire : war in Nova Scotia, 1710-1760 / John Grenier

144. The force of destiny : a history of Italy since 1796 / Christopher Duggan

145. The forger's spell : a true story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the greatest art hoax of the twentieth century / Edward Dolnick

146. The forsaken : an American tragedy in Russia / Tim Tzouliadis

147. The Fourth of July : and the founding of America / Peter de Bolla

148. The genius of China : 3,000 years of science, discovery, & invention / Robert Temple ; foreword by Joseph Needham

149. The German Revolution, 1917-1923 / Pierre Broué ; translated by John Archer and edited by Ian Birchall and Brian Pearce ; introduction by Eric D. Weitz

150. The ghost of freedom : a history of the Caucasus / Charles King

151. The history of the Central Asian republics / Peter L. Roudik

152. The history of Vietnam / Justin Corfield

153. The invention of Scotland : myth and history / Hugh Trevor-Roper

154. The Japanese experience : a short history of Japan / W.G. Beasley

155. The Knights Templar : the essential history / Stephen Howarth

156. The left stuff : how the left handed have survived and thrived in a right-handed world / Melissa Roth

157. The library at night / Alberto Manguel

158. The long road to change : America's revolution, 1750-1820 / Eric Nellis

159. The lost land of Lemuria : fabulous geographies, catastrophic histories / Sumathi Ramaswamy

160. The magical chorus : a history of Russian culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn / Solomon Volkov ; translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis

161. The making of Byzantium, 600-1025 / Mark Whittow

162. The making of modern Colombia : a nation in spite of itself / David Bushnell

163. The Middle Sea : a history of the Mediterranean / John Julius Norwich

164. The New Deal : a 75th anniversary celebration / Kathryn A. Flynn ; with Richard Polese

165. The Nez Perces in the Indian territory : Nimiipuu survival / J. Diane Pearson ; foreword by Patricia Penn Hilden

166. The Norman conquest : England after William the Conqueror / Hugh M. Thomas

167. The people's voice : a populist cultural history of modern America. / David A. Horowitz

168. The perils of peace : America's struggle for survival after Yorktown / Thomas Fleming

169. The river stops here : saving Round Valley, a pivotal chapter in California's water wars / Ted Simon ; afterword by Robert Gottlieb and Ruth Langridge

170. The road to 9/11 : wealth, empire, and the future of America / Peter Dale Scott

171. The road to Dallas : the assassination of John F. Kennedy / David Kaiser

172. The road to rescue : the untold story of Schindler's list / Mietek Pemper ; in collaboration with Viktoria Hertling, assisted by Marie Elisabeth Müller ; translated by David Dollenmayer

173. The Roosevelt presence : the life and legacy of FDR / Patrick J. Maney

174. The saga of the Volsungs : the Norse epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer / introduction and translation by Jesse L. Byock

175. The sixties unplugged : a kaleidoscopic history of a disorderly decade / Gerard J. DeGroot

176. The Star-Spangled Banner : the making of an American icon / Lonn Taylor, Kathleen M. Kendrick, and Jeffrey L. Brodie ; foreword by Ralph Lauren

177. The Terra Cotta Army : China's first emperor and the birth of a nation / John Man

178. The two-ocean war : a short history of the United States Navy in the Second World War / [Samuel Eliot Morison]

179. The vanished library / Luciano Canfora ; translated by Martin Ryle

180. The Vikings : culture and conquest / Martin Arnold

181. The voice of small-town America : the selected writings of Robert Quillen, 1920-1948 / compiled and edited by John Hammond Moore

182. The West the railroads made / Carlos A. Schwantes, James P. Ronda

183. The wordy shipmates / Sarah Vowell

184. This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil War / Drew Gilpin Faust

185. Throes of democracy : the American Civil War era, 1829-1877 / Walter A. McDougall

186. Too close to the sun : the audacious life and times of Denys Finch Hatton / Sara Wheeler

187. Twentieth-century Texas : a social and cultural history / edited by John W. Storey and Mary L. Kelley

188. Unspeakable acts, ordinary people : the dynamics of torture / John Conroy

189. Vermeer's hat : the seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world / Timothy Brook

190. Vienna, 1814 : how the conquerors of Napoleon made love, war, and peace at the Congress of Vienna / David King

191. Voyages of discovery : Captain Cook and the exploration of the Pacific / Lynne Withey

192. White cargo : the forgotten history of Britain's White slaves in America / Don Jordan and Michael Walsh

193. William the Conqueror : the Norman impact upon England / David C. Douglas

194. William Wilberforce : the life of the great anti-slave trade campaigner / William Hague

195. Winter soldier, Iraq and Afghanistan : eyewitness accounts of the occupations / Iraq Veterans Against the War and Aaron Glantz