Posts Tagged ‘ history ’
Adventures with Audiobooks: Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
“Adventures with audiobooks” is a series in which I explore and experiment with audiobooks. What do I like or dislike about them? What kinds of narrators work for me? What kinds of books do I prefer on audio? I hope to answer these questions and more with this series. Since I really enjoyed listening…
Review: Women, Culture, & Politics by Angela Davis
Format: Paperback Published on: February 19th 1990 Published by: Vintage Pages: 256 ISBN: 0679724877 Goodreads If you ask me, Angela Davis is an interesting woman. Born in 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama. Undoubtedly, she experience racial segregation growing up. After graduating from school, she taught at UCLA until 1969 when she was fired for her…
Review: Against The Stream: Growing Up Where Hitler User To Live by Anna Elisabeth Rosmus
Translated by: Imogen von Tannenberg Format: Hardcover Published on: October 28th 2002 Published by: University of South Carolina Press Pages: 160 ISBN: 1570034907 Goodreads Anna Rosmus was a student in the early 1980s when she was entered into an essay contest about her hometown during Nazi rule. Born into a middle class Catholic family,…
Review: Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Format: Paperback Published on: September 23rd 2008 Published by: Vintage Pages: 320 ISBN: 1400075270 Goodreads Like many people, I was familiar with the saying “well-behaved women seldom make history” but knew nothing about the author until I got to college. As part of a women’s history class, I read Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s books A…
