Here is a glimpse of what the History and Philosophy department faculty are reading this week.

Monty Buell is reading:

• Why I Wake Early, by Mary Oliver
• Colonel Roosevelt, by Edmund Morris 
• The Best Spiritual Writing (2011), by Philip Zaleski 
• The Fourth Part of the World, by Toby Lester
• A Voyage Long and Strange, by Tony Horwitz 
• The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism, by Joyce Appleby

Terrie Aamodt is reading:

• Abigail and John: Portrait of a Marriage by Edith Gelles
• Silent Season of a Hero: The Sports Writing of Gay Talese by Gay Talese
• Heaven by Lisa Miller
• James White: Innovator and Overcomer by Gerald Wheeler
• Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz

Greg Dodds is reading:

• Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age, by Arthur Herman
• A Gambling Man: Charles II's Restoration Game, by Jenny Uglow

Linda Emmerson is reading:

• An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith, by Barbara Brown Taylor
• Absence of Mind, by Marilynne Robinson
• The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis, by Leon R. Kass, MD

Terry Gottschall is reading: 

• The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America, by Timothy Egan
• The Siege of Khartoum, by John Wilcox

Here is a glimpse of what the History and Philosophy department faculty are reading this week.

Monty Buell is reading:

• Why I Wake Early, by Mary Oliver
• Colonel Roosevelt, by Edmund Morris 
• The Best Spiritual Writing, by Philip Zaleski 
• The Fourth Part of the World, by Toby Lester
• A Voyage Long and Strange, by Tony Horwitz 
• The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism, by Joyce Appleby

Terrie Aamodt is reading:

• Abigail and John: Portrait of a Marriage by Edith Gelles
• Silent Season of a Hero: The Sports Writing of Gay Talese by Gay Talese
• Heaven by Lisa Miller
• James White: Innovator and Overcomer by Gerald Wheeler
• Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz

Greg Dodds is reading:

• Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman
• General and Madame de Lafayette:Partners in Liberty's Cause in the American and French Revolutions, by Jason Lane
• A Gambling Man: Charles II's Restoration Game by Jenny Uglow

Linda Emmerson is reading:

• To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World by James Davison Hunter
• An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith by Barbara Brown Taylor
• Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson

Terry Gottschall is reading: 

• The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America, by Timothy Egan
• The Siege of Khartoum by John Wilcox

Here is a glimpse of what the History and Philosophy department faculty are reading this week.

Monty Buell is reading:

• Swan:  Poems and Prose Poems by Mary Oliver
• The Ape House: A Novel by Sara Gruen
• The Fourth Part of the World by Toby Lester
• All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera
• Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization by Spencer Wells
• The Best American Mystery Stories, 2010 by Lee Child
• At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson

Terrie Aamodt is reading:

• History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
• Abigail and John: Portrait of a Marriage by Edith Gelles
• Silent Season of a Hero: The Sports Writing of Gay Talese by Gay Talese
• Heaven by Lisa Miller
• James White: Innovator and Overcomer by Gerald Wheeler
• The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns
• Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz

Greg Dodds is reading:

• To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World by James Davison Hunter   
• Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman
• A Gambling Man: Charles II's Restoration Game by Jenny Uglow

Linda Emmerson is reading:

• To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World by James Davison Hunter
• An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith by Barbara Brown Taylor
• Six New Gospels: New Testament Women Tell Their Stories by Margaret Hebblethwaite
• Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson

Terry Gottschall is reading: 

• The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle that Changed the World by Holger Herwig
• Hadrian by Anthony Everitt
• The Siege of Khartoum by John Wilcox