For those of you who might be interested in joining me in reading some of the books I've been assigned this semester. Feel free to post a comment with your opinion on a book or what you might be interested in reading. Also, should time permit with all my assignments, I want to try and post some reviews of the books. I've arranged the books in the groups that I will be reading each week.Here they are:
Week One:
- The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hamalian
- Domesticating History: The Political Origins of America's House Museums by Patricia West
- Telling the Truth About History by Joyce Appleby, et. al.
Week Two:
- Peace Came in the Form of Women: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands by Julianna Barr- The Gender of History by Bonnie G. Smith
Week Three:
- Second Thoughts on Colonial Historians and Native Americans by James Merrell
- Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition by James T. Kloppenberg
- Museums and the Future of Collecting by Simon Knell
Week Four:
- Silencing The Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouilliot
- Mysteries of Sex: Tracing Men and Women through American History by Mary Ryan
- Exhibitions in Museums by Michael BelcherWeek Five:
- The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
- Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives by Susan Sleeper-Smith
I think those will keep you busy for awhile, and to think that's only half the list! I still need to pick out another book to read for my American History reading seminar in week five, but it was long and a lot of the titles looked interesting.
Hope you all will join me and enjoy :)
That is a lot of books!
ReplyDeleteIt is, and to think that's only half the list! I would recommend the Comanche Empire and Domesticating History. The Comanche Empire is an interesting argument that the Comanche were a dominate imperial force through the 18th and 19th century and were in some regard a superior force to the Europeans. Domesticating History was really good and goes into the politics of the origins of house museums. Originally founded to be neutral, and rise above politics they were often embroiled in political debates. The book really makes you think about the use of house museums and how they have been used to propagate a certain history.
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