Books and Films Recommended in Class
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
1491 by Charles Mann
The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 by Alfred Crosby
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
The Invasion of America by Francis Jennings
Civil Disobedience by Henry Thoreau
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
Language, Thought, and Reality by Benjamin Whorf
The Sacred Hoop by Paula Gunn Allen
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and
Heroism in Colonial Africa
by Adam Hochschild
The Darker Nations: A People's
History of the Third World
by Vijay Prashad
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Beyond the Green Zone by Dahr Jamail
Recommended Films
An Inconvenient Truth
In the Valley of Elah