News:

• Democracy Now! An excellent source for daily news.

History:

• Dr. Martin Luther King, JR. on the war against the people of Vietnam
But, it also makes a compelling case for international solidarity against all illegal and unjust wars.
• Taylor Branch. Parting the Waters. The first book of a monumental trilogy on the United States during the King years.
• Peter Heather. The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of the Rome and the Barbarians Oxford University Press. Why did an amazingly durable (military) empire collapse?
• Charles Tilly. Coercion, Capital, and European states, AD 990-1992. Why do states rule in such different ways?
• Nicolas Werth. Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag. Princeton University Press, 2007. An astonishing and grueling account of one of the Soviet's "solution" to the problem of feeding the urban elite?

On writing:

• William Zinsser. On Writing Well.

Last updated: Sept. 2010