Kara W. SwansonMay 19, 2025
Get ready! The #AHAReads summer reading challenge starts in June. Who among us is not spoiled for choice in the category: "a history that has been sitting on your shelf too long"?! : https://www.historians.org/news-publications/aha-reads/?_zs=rIbma&_zl=B7bV4
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In these chaotic times, we’re feeling the need to escape. And what better way is there to forget about the present than by diving into a good book about the past? So we invite you to participate in the fourth annual AHA Summer Reading Challenge. Participants will complete three (or…

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Kara W. SwansonAug 29, 2024
Finished the 3fold #AHAReads summer challenge just under the wire! For historical fiction set in the period/place I study, I picked North Woods by Daniel Mason, which like my current book in progress, covers the #US from colonial period to present. Unlike my book, the novel focuses on one place in western #Mass. Listened to the audiobook, & can confirm that the book merits the hype: https://www.npr.org/2023/09/19/1200166912/book-review-daniel-mason-north-woods
Kara W. SwansonAug 7, 2024
Still working on my #AHAReads summer challenge. For #hist of a place I visited this summer, I picked Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945 by Tony Judt. Compulsively readable in part bcs it explains so much about recent & current politics. Ive been telling everyone I know (99% of whom are not @histodons) to read it. Note, it is very very very long. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postwar:_A_History_of_Europe_Since_1945
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 - Wikipedia

Show threadKara W. SwansonJul 19, 2024
Started w a #history of Indigenous people that has been in my stack: the bestselling Indigenous Peoples' History of the #US. Dunbar-Ortiz tackles her near-impossible task of addressing myriad peoples in an accessible book by focusing on #US military & wars, drawing a straight line to 21st c conflicts #AHAReads https://www.beacon.org/An-Indigenous-Peoples-History-of-the-United-States-P2023.aspx
Beacon Press: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

Kara W. SwansonJul 19, 2024
Late to the party on #AHAReads the #history summer reading challenge, but aiming to complete my 3 tasks. https://www.historians.org/news-publications/aha-reads/?_zs=rIbma&_zl=fed94
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In these chaotic times, we’re feeling the need to escape. And what better way is there to forget about the present than by diving into a good book about the past? So we invite you to participate in the fourth annual AHA Summer Reading Challenge. Participants will complete three (or…

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Kara W. SwansonAug 8, 2023
Finished #AHAReads w the historical novel When Women Were Dragons. Pairs well with Lessons in Chemistry, The Handmaid's Tale, #Barbie and 2023. Plus dragons! And a rare book set in my home state of Wisconsin (mid 20th century). Highly recommend! #SummerReading
Kara W. SwansonJul 20, 2023
For a history by someone from a different background, I read Strangers from Another Shore A #History of Asian Americans by Ronald Takaki (1989 ed), which I appreciated as a #USHistorian, #LegalHistorian and #propertyProf #AHAReads.
Kara W. SwansonJul 10, 2023
Checked off 2 more squares on my #AHAReads summer reading bingo card, and learned some new historical tidbits #histodons
X Terrible Tudors for young readers
X Queer There and Everywhere, a banned book, also for young readers, with bios of queer public figures from the Roman Empire to present. Deservedly award winning!
LegalQuiltsJul 7, 2023

Just finished read "Navy's Barbary War Crucible by William M. Fowler, Jr, from the August 2005 issue of Naval History Magazine. Lots of famous names in Naval History, but not a war I knew much about.

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Kara W. SwansonJul 3, 2023
First bingo in #AHAReads!
#history of a place I know little about - #Mexico. Shawcross follows not only Archduke Maximillian but also his wife the Belgian princess Carlotta in this fast-paced tales of European egos attempting to shape North America while US is occupied by its Civil War.