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American History II 

 (1877 to present)

 

A Bright and Shining Lie, Neil Sheehan

The Awakening- Kate Chopin

Man in the Gray Flannel Suit  Sloan Wilson

 Rag Time E.L. Doctrow On the Road Jack Kerouac
Beloved        Toni Morrison Catch 22    Joseph Heller
Sister Carrie Theodore Dressier   any book by Stephen Crane, William Faulkner
To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper    is not accepted Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men is not accepted
 

Women's Studies SS 105

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe- Fannie Farmer

The Awakening- Kate Chopin

 

Beloved        Toni Morrison

Sister Carrie
Theodore Dressier

Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston

Western Civilizations I   beginning of Man to 1715

  
Hammarabi’s Code The Song of Roland 
The Aeneid         Virgil Divine Comedy  Dante    
The Odyssey or The Iliad  Homer  The Prince  Machiavellian 
  Epic of Gilgamesh   Canterbury Tales Chaucer  
Any of the Oedipus Cycle (Antigone, Oedipus Rex Sophocles, etc.) Paradise Lost   John Milton

History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides         

Utopia  Thomas More
Any Play by  Moliere Book of Courtier     Baldissare Castiglione
any Shakespeare except Romeo and Juliet  and Hamlet

Anything by St. Augustine 

Don Quixote    Cervantes

or choose your own see these links 

 

Western Civ 2       (1715-present)

A Vindication of the Rights of Women  Mary Wollstonecraft                

The Wealth of Nations  Adam Smith

Communist Manifesto Marx and Engels

Origin of Species      Charles Darwin                              

Madame Bovary    Gustave Flaubert

War and Peace    Leo Tolstoy          

All Quiet on the Western Front       Erich Remarque

The Dram Shop         Emile Zola                

The Wasteland           TS Eliot                

Sister Carrie       Theodore Dressier

Triumph and Tragedy                Winston Churchill    

   

or choose your own, see an MJC reference librarian for help

Leviathan   Thomas Hobbes                

Candide Voltaire            

Separation of Powers Montesquieu

Democracy in America  De Toqueville             

Social Contract Rousseau               

Hard Times  Dickens  

Any memoirs or autobiography of any women from 1700- present with in the context of European history:

 English women suffragists

 Female monarchs  

Behind the Urals                                  John Scott                     

Catch 22    Joseph Heller

Diary of Anne Frank   Anne Frank

The Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich- Wm. Shirer

American History I 

(colonial period - 1877)

The Captivity of Mary Rowlandson Autobiography of Ben Franklin
Walden, Thoreau The Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne

The House of 7 Gables

Democracy in America          De Toqueville      Uncle Tom's Cabin- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Little Women- Louisa May Alcott

Mark Twain-Pudd'n'head Wilson, Innocents Abroad, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Crevecoeur- Letters from an American Farmer

Walt Whitman- Leaves of Grass

Herman Melville- Moby-Dick, Billy Budd

Sister Carrie         Theodore Dressier

Stephen Crane Red Badge of Courage

The Federalist Papers

Edgar Allen Poe-Tell Tale Heart  or other Poe

Nathaniel Hawthorne-Twice Told Tales

Frederick Douglass- Narrative of (his) Life

Jonathon Edwards- Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Political Science 101 and 102
1984, Animal Farm George Orewell Separation of Powers Montesquieu

The Federalist Papers

Autobiography of Ben Franklin
Democracy in America                    De Toqueville     The Prince  Machiavelli 
Social Contract Rousseau The Wealth of Nations  Adam Smith  
Presidential Ambitions Rich Shenkman People Of Plenty David Potter
Biography of any Supreme Court judge Any book on any Supreme Court case or law.

Political Science 120

California History 129
 Book about any California issue or controversy covered in class. Any book by John Steinbeck
same books for PS 120
Biography of any Californian judge, lawmaker, governor

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World Civ History 106

Hammarabi’s Code The Song of Roland 
The Aeneid         Virgil Divine Comedy  Dante    
The Odyssey or The Iliad  Homer  The Prince  Machiavellian 
  Epic of Gilgamesh   Canterbury Tales Chaucer  
Any of the Oedipus Cycle (Antigone, Oedipus Rex Sophocles, etc.) Paradise Lost   John Milton

History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides         

Utopia  Thomas More
Art of War-  Sun Tzu Book of Courtier     Baldissare Castiglione
any Shakespeare except Romeo and Juliet  and Hamlet

Anything by St. Augustine 

Chuang Tzu- Basic Writings
Old Testament or New Testament The Teachings of Buddha
Kama Sutra

The Q'aran  (Koran)

Bhagavad Vita  

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