by envisionmg | Feb 26, 2020 | What The Director Is Reading
I’ve just started How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi, which attempts to help readers understand and uproot racism in themselves and the world around them. Kendi is a history professor and writer who won the 2016 National Book Award for Stamped from the...
by envisionmg | Feb 24, 2020 | Discovery List, History, Reading Lists, Uncategorized
Because I can not help but fall down a rabbit hole when I stumble on one, as I have been reading Lakota America, I’ve also been putting together a Plains Indian reading list. This is by no means and exhaustive list but more of a combination of new books and...
by envisionmg | Feb 21, 2020 | History, Jim Recommends
I normally wait to finish reading a book before I start righting about it on Read This but I have been enjoying Pekka Hämäläinen’s Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power so much I needed to stop halfway through and recommend it to you all. As...
by envisionmg | Feb 17, 2020 | Memoir, Michelle Recommends
About The Odd Woman and the City: “A memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance encounters, and ever-changing friendships of urban life that forge the sensibility of a fiercely...
by envisionmg | Feb 12, 2020 | History, Jim Reviews
Writing histories of the British East India Company (EIC) is hard. First of all what is it? Its a multi-national corporation, its a business with governmental authority over a large portion of the Indian subcontinent , it has its own military, and navy. All of it...
