What you reading this week DU? Me I'm going to start reading "The Tiger"

[applegrove]

by John vaillant. It is about Tigers and wildlife habit in Russia. It has gotten great reviews. I love cultural histories.

[lovemydog]

1. American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World

by David E. Stannard. It's about one of the worst demographic disasters in history - destruction of American Indians in the centuries after 1492.

[applegrove]

2. I had an african history teacher who told us that two weeks after Columbus

landed in the Americas the locals started throwing up and didn't stop until most of them were dead. She said that in some ways the history of the world is the history of disease. And she was right. As soon as all the indigenous americans died off europeans started importing huge numbers of slaves from Africa...because they were from the most 'exposed to disease' continent on the planet and thus were not as vulnerable as the local population to smallpox and measles and shit that europeans brought over.

[bluedigger]

3. Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce,

The Untold story of an American Tragedy, by Kent Nerburn.

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. Something I've wanted to read for many, many years...

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...but never thought of when I was in a bookstore or in a library.
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Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States".
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Only 20 pages or so into it and it's FASCNATING!!!
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I got it from the library with the DVD (that I haven't had a chance
to watch yet.
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[Dr. Strange]

5. Dexter by Design

[Dr Morbius]

6. Finishing by tomorrow: Magick, Mayhem and Mavericks:

A Spirited History of Physical Chemistry, by Cathy Cobb.

Beginning no later than Tuesday: Harry Truman and Civil Rights: Moral Courage and Political Risks, by Michael Gardner.

[flying rabbit]

7. An HP Lovecraft collection of stories

seems about right for the dark and rainy nights around here.