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