Category: But it’s Historical!
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Mass Media and Elections
Mass Media and Elections Joslyn 1984 If there was ever a book that was outdated, I think this one might be in the top 10. Aside from the craziness of campaigns, the choice of candidates, and fake news, this book is missing a whole chunk of information. Updates should probably…
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From the Beginning
The Atlas of World History: From the Beginning to Alexander the Great McEvedy 1970 Submitter: Weeding my high school library, where the non fiction books average an age of 1986, I found this in the history section. I flipped through it and it seemed pretty decent for being published in…
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Games the Indians Played
The Games the Indians Played Lavine 1974 Submitter: This book uses outdated and culturally insensitive terms like “redskin.” It contains a decent amount of research from when the author was a teacher on a reservation. He interviewed many of the indigenous people there and I’m sure meant this to be…
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Defending Slavery
Slavery Defended: The Views of the Old South McKitrick (Ed.) 1963 Submitter: We are going through a massive weeding project at our small academic library, and this title came up (thankfully in the titles to be weeded!). Now, granted, I wasn’t alive in the 1960s, but I would have hoped…
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Living the Fallout Life
Fallout Shelter Handbook West 1962 I love Red Scare materials and I am always fascinated by the prospect of supposedly living through nuclear annihilation. Remember, I am from the generation who was told to hide under my desk when the bomb drops, so I could be “safe”. Note the apparent…
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Umbrellas: The More You Know
A History of the Umbrella Crawford 1970 Back in 2009 when we started this little dog and pony show, a few of the titles got lost in the shuffle between migrations and our own incompetence. This title has been on my “lost/broken” list for a while and now I am…
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