Supplemental challenge: Reading list

Africa
What is the What, by Dave Eggers
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, by Philip Gourevitch
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, by Adam Hochschild

World War I
Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo
The Guns of August, by Barbara Tuchman
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, by Siegfried Sassoon
A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway

World War II
The Pacific War: 1931-1945, by Saburo Ienaga
The Rape of Nanking, by Iris Chang
Band of Brothers, by Stephen Ambrose
Hiroshima, by John Hersey
D-Day, by Stephen Ambrose
Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb, by Ronald Takaki

The Holocaust
The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945, by Wladyslaw Szpilman
The Complete Maus, by Art Spiegelman
Survival in Auschwitz, by Primo Levi
The Painted Bird, by Jerzy Kosinski

Cold War
The Cold War: A New History, by John Lewis Gaddis

Colonialism/Imperialism/Neo-colonialism
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change, by Stephen Kinzer
Confessions of an Economic Hitman, by John Perkins

Homework/in class: "Night and Fog"

Date assigned
Thursday, Dec. 13


Assignment
Watch "Night and Fog" (found here).  Type a response to the film - at least 1 page, double-spaced, 12 point Times New Roman font.  If you have a difficult time thinking of something to write about, here are some possible topics:

- What is evil?

- What image in this film shocked you the most?

- How is this film different from other Holocaust films you've seen or books you've read?  How is it similar?

- Is the narrator biased?  Should he be?

- Can this happen again?  If yes, how?  If no, why not?


Due date
Email it to me sometime before midnight on Friday, Dec. 14 at jreinhol@pps.net

Project: Propaganda

The propaganda project instructions can be found here.

Homework: Soviet purges under Stalin

Date assigned
Tuesday, Dec. 4


Assignment
Read Soviet purges under Stalin (found here).  Highlight/underline and annotate the document.


Due date
Thursday, Dec. 6