Cavalier and Yankee: the Old South and American Character by William R. Taylor.

Cavalier and Yankee: the Old South and American Character by William R. Taylor. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. 4 volumes. Edited by Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris.

Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. 4 volumes. Edited by Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris. Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1991 (originally published by UNC press, 1989) Sponsored by U Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture. Big topics like "Art and Architecture" or "Environment" with lots of small essays on the sub-topics.

Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South by Gaines M. Foster

Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South by Gaines M. Foster Oxford University press, 1987. Confederate memory morphing over the decades. Very useful background for my dissertation.

Baptized in Blood: the religion of the Lost Cause 1865-1920. by Charles Reagan Wilson.

Baptized in Blood: the Religion of the Lost Cause 1865-1920. by Charles Reagan Wilson. University of Georgia Press, 1980. Confederate symbolism + Christian symbols = an entrenched Confederate identity. Very useful for the dissertation.

The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and His Image in American Society. by Thomas L. Connelly.

The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and His Image in American Society. by Thomas L. Connelly. Louisiana State University press, 1977. How his image was created and how it has shifted. Very useful for the dissertation.

In the House of the Hangman: The Agonies of German Defeat, 1943-1949. by Jeffrey K. Olick.

In the House of the Hangman: The Agonies of German Defeat, 1943-1949. by Jeffrey K. Olick. University of Chicago press, 2005.

War and remembrance in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Jay Winter and Emmanuel Sivan.

War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Jay Winter and Emmanuel Sivan. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Neutralizing Memory: The Jew in Contemporary Poland. by Iwona Irwin-Zarecka.

Neutralizing Memory: The Jew in Contemporary Poland. by Iwona Irwin-Zarecka. Transaction Publishers, 1990.

Theorizing the Standoff by Robin Wagner-Pacifici

Theorizing the Standoff by Robin Wagner-Pacifici Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Remembering to Forget: Holocaust memory through the Camera's Eye by Barbie Zelizer

Remembering to Forget: Holocaust memory through the Camera's Eye by Barbie Zelizer University of Chicago press, 1998. The photos of the concentration camps at liberation are our memories of the Holocaust.

Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media by Elaine Showalter.

Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media by Elaine Showalter. Columbia University Press, 1997. Alien abduction, Chronic Fatigue syndrome, Satanic Ritual Abuse, recovered memory and so on.

Ain't No Making It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood by Jay Macleod

Ain't No Making It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood by Jay Macleod Third ed Westview press, 2009 2nd Ed Westview Press, 1995. The first edition (1987) looked at 2 groups of young boys in a poor neighborhood-- a housing project-- and explored why some thought they could make it and other couldn't. The 2nd edition went back and found out that pretty much no one made it. Very depressing, very sociologically rich. I used this in class for years; it really, really got to a lot of the students. The third edition went back for another update on the men. Things got better for many of them. Again very sociologically rich. The amazing thing about my version of the 3rd edition is that when I got it at a sociology conference right when it was released-- the Easterns? ASA? I forget now-- the author was there with a bunch of the men from the book. I got a bunch of them to sign the book and got to tell them about what the book had meant to my students all these years. Very moving.

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay.

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay. Harmony Books, 1980. Modern version of the 1841 classic. Tulipmania, the South-Sea Bubble, the Mississippi Scheme.

History Wars edited by Edward Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt.

History Wars: The Enola Gay and other Battles for the American Past. edited by Edward Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt. Henry Holt and Company, 1996. The Enola Gay controversy, related controversies, culture wars. essays.

Deciphering Violence: The Cognitive Structure of Right and Wrong by Karen Cerulo.

Deciphering Violence: The Cognitive Structure of Right and Wrong by Karen Cerulo. Routledge 1998. Cerulo found that our perceptions of who was a victim and who was a criminal/perpetrator vary depending on the structure of a media story--especially depending on the order in which events are presented. Cool and unsettling.

To See, To Feel, To Know: Experiencing the Holocaust through the Virginia Holocaust Museum. by Elizabeth Anne Custalow.

To See, To Feel, To Know: Experiencing the Holocaust through the Virginia Holocaust Museum. by Elizabeth Anne Custalow. Donning Company Publishers 2005. The museum's exhibits. Lots of photos.

Eating Culture, Edited by Ron Scpp and Brian Seitz

Eating Culture, Edited by Ron Scapp and Brian Seitz SUNY Press, 1998. Essays on food, eating practices, ideology, etc.

The Gospel of Food by Barry Glassner.

The Gospel of Food by Barry Glassner. Harper Perennial 2007. How and why we're so weird about food.

The American Christmas by James H. Barnett.

The American Christmas by James H. Barnett. MacMillan, 1954. An earlier look at the holiday. Evolution of the holiday. Social role of Santa Claus. Social Role of Christmas art.

The Battle for Christmas by Stephen Nissebaum.

The Battle for Christmas by Stephen Nissebaum. Vintage Books, 1996. Another cultural history of Christmas. More depth on the Puritans, the antebellum south, the evolution of St Nick. Invention of tradition.

Christmas in America: A History. by Penne L. Restad.

Christmas in America: A History. by Penne L. Restad. Oxford U Press, 1995. Wild parties in the colonial south. No celebration at all under the Puritans. Gradual influence of European customs, emphasis on family celebrations, growth of commercialism. This is a great read.

Flavor of the Month: Why Smart People Fall for Fads. by Joel Best.

Flavor of the Month: Why Smart People Fall for Fads. by Joel Best. U Cal Press, 2006. Fad cycles and dynamics. Great examples.

We Are What We Celebrate: Understanding Holidays and Rituals. Ed by Amitai Etzioni and Jared Bloom.

We Are What We Celebrate: Understanding Holidays and Rituals. Edited by Amitai Etzioni and Jared Bloom. NYU Press, 2004. Family, Community, Nation building through ritual.

Radioactive by Lauren Redniss

Radioactive-- Marie and Pierre Curie: A Take of Love and Fallout. by Lauren Redniss HarperCollins 2011 The book glows in the dark. The Curies' life story, interspersed with stories about their discoveries and their eventual uses. Drawings and photos. I lobbied for 2 years to get this on our reading list. Such a beautiful, fascinating book.

Thunder and Lightening by Lauren Redniss

Thunder and Lightening: Weather Past, Present, Future by Lauren Redniss Random House 2015. So gorgeous. Chaos, cold, rain, wind, heat, sky... Joe Cates drew my attention to a theme of extremes causing a sort of blindness--swimming at night, snow blindness, so on. Got this as inspiration for the faculty learning community that's making the Focused Inquiry Collaborative Video.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

This was mom's childhood book. Color plates by Edwin John Prittie. Other illustrations by Tenniel.

More Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass

More Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass By Martin Gardner Random House 1990 I had to get this one--instead of the Complete or Definitive Annotated Alice-- when I found out that the illustrations were the ones done by Peter Newell, which are hard-ish to come by.

the Annotated Alice

the Annotated Alice by Martin Gardner

Alice's Adventures Underground. Lewis Carroll, illus

Alice's Adventures Underground. Lewis Carroll, illus The book that became Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The drawings are by Carroll himself. Here's the Mock Turtle and the Griffon.

Alice's Pop-up Wonderland; Nck Denchfield and Alex Vining

Alice's Pop-up Wonderland; Nick Denchfield and Alex Vining Macmillan Children's Books 2000 The classic Tenniel illustrations in a book that pops up into a 3-D tableau, with punch out paper dolls that can move from room to room.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Barry Moser, illus

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Barry Moser, illus BookPartners LLC 2011.

Beautiful and vaguely disturbing woodcuts.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: a pop-up

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Random House 1968. Dreamy pop-up book.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, illus Robert Sabuda.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, illus. Robert Sabuda. Little Simon; Pop edition, 2003. An amazing pop-up book.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Mervyn Peake, Illus

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Mervyn Peake, Illus Bloomsbury USA 2001 Peake wrote Gormenghast, which I have never actually read, even though it's been on my to-read list since the tv adaption came out. Anyway, he also drew these, which are more whimsical than I expected, given Gormenghast

. Lovely. It makes me think there's some class subtext to the drawings that I'm missing.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Rodney Matthews, Illus.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Rodney Matthews, Illus. Templar Books, 2009. Rodney Matthews designs a lot of album coves and draws science fiction covers. Bringing something new to Alice.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Tove Jansson, Illus

A friend was celebrating about finding a Moomin book, and I didn't know what that was, and got so schooled on Tove Jansson that when I found out she illustrated Alice, I went on a quest to find a copy. I love that she chose to illustrate moments from the text that no one else had drawn before (that I've seen anyway), like Alice dreaming that she's walking hand in hand with her cat Dinah, asking her if she has ever eaten a bat. Contrasting her Mad Hatter and March Hare with Steadman's (earlier) and Moser's (coming) is interesting. Hers are vaguely disreputable, but not too. Steadman's are in some Hunter S. Thompson-esque trip, and Moser's are menacing like the bad guys in a Neil Gaiman novel.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Tove Jansson, Illus Tate Publishing 2011.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Illus Abelardo Morell

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Illus Abelardo Morell Dutton Juvenile; Open market ed edition 1998. So clever, the collaged photographs of the Tenniel illustrations.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Illus by Michael Hague

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Illus by Michael Hague. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston 1985. Mom gave me this one because she said that his version of Alice reminded her so much of me as a child.

Alice in Wonderland; Ralph Steadman, Illus.

I have Alice in Wonderland illustrated by Steadman in paperback, and 2 copies of Alice Through the Looking Glass Illustrated by Steadman. Two might seem greedy, but the first one is a hardcover I found in a used bookstore in the early 90's before I had ever heard of this edition, and the 2nd one is a paperback I got when ebay was invented and it became easier to find treasure, and I found both books as a set.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Maggie Taylor, illus.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Maggie Taylor, illus. Modernbook Gallery, 2008. This is spectacular.

The Flight of Dragons.

The Flight of Dragons. Peter Dickinson. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers. 1979. Another from the late 70’s. This is a fun book. Good illustrations, and information about the evolution of dragons, their life cycle, and so on.