I wrote yesterday about how I’d compiled a list of history-related reading generously shared from some Facebook friends. Well, that original Facebook post prompted Jim’s uncle, who is an actual history professor, y’all, to suggest a few of his favorites. I thought I’d put his list in its own category:

• Out of this Furnace (Thomas Bell)
• The Paranoid Style in American Politics (Richard Hofstadter)
• Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (Tony Horowitz)
• The Strange Career of William Ellis, The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire (Karl Jacoby)
• Natural Allies: Women’s Associations in American History (Anne Firor Scott)
• Who Stole the American Dream? (Hedrick Smith)
• Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self Made Man (Garry Wills)
• The Radicalism of the American Revolution (Gordon Wood)

We are all going to come out of this pandemic smarter, my friends. Thank you, Uncle Jack!