I’m working on a history project and need support to help me learn.
HIST 1302
Due Date: Dec. 1 (last day of class) by 5 pm
Write a review of two of the following books (see list below). If you wish to review a different memoir or book of history, you must talk to me first.
1. Nella Larsen, Passing (1929)
Passing is a fictional account of life in Harlem during the 1920s; it is a brief but dramatic book. It is available through the SHSU Newton Gresham Library as an electronic book. The call number for the e-book is: PS3523.A7225 P37 2004eb
And the permanent link to the e-book is: https://ezproxy.shsu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat00667a&AN=sam.1938926&site=eds-live&scope=site
2. Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (1946)
This is an account of the author’s experience of surviving the Nazi concentration camps and his thoughts on why some people survived and most died. His ideas about what makes it possible for a human being to endure terrible suffering became the basis for a new school of psychological thought. Based on a 1991 survey, the Library of Congress declared his book to be one of the top 10 most influential books Americans had read.
It is available through the SHSU Newton Gresham Library as a regular book and may also be available at public libraries; it can also be purchased through booksellers such as amazon.
3. Art Spiegelman, Maus (1986)
This is a graphic novel/memoir about the Holocaust and World War II. This book is available at many public libraries, or for purchase online through booksellers such as amazon.
4. Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior (1976)
The Woman Warrior is a blend of folk tales and memoir by a Chinese American woman dealing with the immigrant experience and taking a distinctly feminist standpoint in how she sees the two cultures she is navigating. It is available for free at the SHSU Newton Gresham Library as a book; it is available as used book from booksellers such as amazon, and it is also currently available for free as a PDF here:
https://www.academia.edu/26030087/Maxine_Hong_Kingston_-_The_Woman_Warrior
5. Clint Smith, Counting Descent: Poems (Write Bloody Publishing, 2016). If you are a first-year student, you should have received a free copy of this book already during Orientation, as this book is the SHSU Common Reader for 2021-2022. If you do not have a copy of this book and would like one for free, you can either ask the First Year Experience office or access this book as an e-book through the Newton Gresham Library. The First Year Experience office has a limited number of copies available for free on a first-come, first-served basis. They can be contacted by emailing commonreader@shsu.edu and explaining that this is for an assignment for Dr. Nancy Baker’s HIST 1302 class.
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