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About meI like learning, travel, museums, history, meeting new people, and laughing. I read a lot, mostly history.

I have a BA in History and Political Science.

I live in the Manayunk neighborhood of Philadelphia along with my better half and our cat.

About my libraryMost of my reading is in American history, particularly slavery and the Civil War, but also ancient and medieval history. I like the political, social, and economic aspects of history. Although I like to know who won the battles, I hate arguments about tactics or strategy. ("Lee could have won at Gettysburg if..." Yuk!).

If a subject interests me, I buy a book on the topic. Unfortunately, I buy more books than I have time to read. I've noticed that this site makes it easy to discover interesting books, and so the number of my unread books is increasing.

If I have not yet read a book, it's unrated.

I own all the books listed here.

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William Pitt the Younger by William Hague

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The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States by Alexander Keyssar

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The Making of the New Deal: The Insiders Speak by Frank Freidel

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Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux by John G. Neihardt

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Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Oxford History of the United States) by Gordon S. Wood

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Churchill: A Biography by Roy Jenkins

Re: Civil War Draft Resistance in the Middle West

Old dissertations are available through University Microfilms, which I think is now owned by Proquest. If you are affiliated with a university I think you will want to go through your university library web page. If not, I'm not sure, but I'd be surprised if they wouldn't have some way to take your money. I'd try to find their web page and poke around. Price will depend on format, but don't be surprised if its around $50.

If you do have access to a university library, many dissertations are also available through inter-library loan, so you could check it out before buying.

I have not read this book yet, but I understand it to be a social history of draft resistors in a set of mid-west counties; ethnic, economics, geographic, political party background and how those correlate to reasons for resisting and how the resistance changed as the Union draft escalated. I think it was notable for being one of the first studies show the draft resistors in a sympathetic light.

posted by eromsted at 8:54 pm (EST) on Sep 29, 2009

Thanks for adding mine to your list of interesting libraries. I'm not big on "what-if" history either though sometimes it's hard to distinguish between that and analyzing what happened and why. Been anti-constructionist lately too for some reason - I used to enjoy that rather than demanding that everything be supported by evidence but now that sticks out for me as a negative. I have no idea why.

Anyway - I appreciate it.

posted by cemanuel at 8:38 am (EST) on Sep 13, 2009

Oh I'm used to that. My partner thinks I have a problem. We're making plans to move and he told me that if I'm going to continue buying books the way I do he's not helping me pack and move them to our new place, haha!

posted by vombatiformes at 8:18 pm (EST) on Aug 12, 2009

About The Education of Historians... I read the CHE forums pretty regularly and so was aware of most of the problems discussed in the book. I thought that it described the state of graduate school education pretty accurately but that it didn't really offer any concrete solutions. It offered some but they were either vague or too idealistic. I have a lot of respect for Thomas Bender and I think he did a good job of highlighting what mostly everyone involved in graduate level history programs already knew. Brooklyn College has instituted an "Archival Management" undergraduate minor and I think that graduate programs should begin possibly preparing, or offering to prepare, students for other possible career paths. My goal is to be an academic but I would be ready to accept alternative employment, i.e. archivist, curator, etc.... I'm originally from Kearny, NJ, which is between Newark and Jersey City but I've been in New York for almost ten years now.

posted by michaelhattem at 6:59 pm (EST) on Jul 4, 2009

Hey man -- thanks for adding my library as interesting. I love your comment: "I like the political, social, and economic aspects of history. Although I like to know who won the battles, I hate arguments about tactics or strategy. ("Lee could have won at Gettysburg if..." Yuk!)." I feel the same way. I'm still trying to find a good history of World War I that doesn't go down the ponderous John Keegan trail of dissecting the battles and failing to fully immerse the reader in the more critical socio-political
aspects of the conflict.

I too have a BA in History (with a minor in Politics) from Fairfeld University in my case. Did you read the Aaron Burr books by Lomask? I read them when they came out and I thought they were outstanding. I see you have 1491. I found 1491 and Alan Taylor's American Colonies to be the two most important books I have ever read on early American history. Ciao, Garp

posted by Garp83 at 8:29 am (EST) on Jun 13, 2009

San Diego is alright, it provides a relaxing alternative to LA every now and then. SD is so homogenous, though. It took me a long time to get used to, but I learned to love LA for all of its sprawling strangeness and its decentralized mindset.
These are good places to start for Bacon's Rebellion-

Wilcomb E. Washburn, The Governor and the Rebel: A History of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia
Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom

One of the only relatively contemporary histories was a manuscript purportedly by Thomas Mathew, The Beginning Progress, and Conclusion of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia in the years 1675, 1676, written in 1705, which came into the possession of Thomas Jefferson in 1803, and which you can see if you're curious in the Laws and Records of Virginia section of his papers online at the Library of Congress web site.

Take care,
- mattcrow

posted by mattcrow at 8:06 pm (EST) on Jun 9, 2009

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