"Our Time of Troubles... commenced with the catastrophic events of the year of 1914... Our civilization has just begun to recover." - Arnold Toynbee

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

My Reading List...




In the past month and a half since graduation, I've been reading the following...

Selections from the Midland Republican and Midland Sun (old Midland newspapers)

The Forgotten Conservative: Rediscovering Grover Cleveland by John Pafford

First Presbyterian Church of Midland, 1867-1947 by Minnie W. Ball

The Populist Persuasion: An American History by Michael Kazin

Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South by Matthew Hild

New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865-1905 by Rebecca Edwards

The Populist Vision by Charles Postel (second read through)

A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 by Michael McGerr

Touching Base: Professional Baseball and American Culture in the Progressive Era by Steven A. Riess

British Cinema and Middlebrow Culture in the Interwar Years by Lawrence Napper

Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940 by David E. Kyvig

Charles A. Lindbergh and the American Dilemma: The Conflict of Technology and Human Values by Susan M. Gray

The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh & the Rise of American Aviation (Pivotal Moments in American History) by Thomas Kessner

The Marvellous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum (still reading)

Psalms from the Vulgate Bible (my Latin is coming along beautifully, after a long period of atrophy.)

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