Social Sciences Resources
Fall 2021
History & Geography
Forgotten Healers:
Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy
by Sharon T. Strocchia
Facing the Mountain:
The True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
by Daniel James Brown
America on Fire:
The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
by Elizabeth Kai Hinton
The Hidden Life of Ice:
Dispatches from a Disappearing World
by Marco Tedesco & Alberto Flores d’Arcais
Names of New York:
Discovering the City’s Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place Names
by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
A Modern History of European Cities:
1815 to the Present
by Rosemary Wakeman
Political Science
Hateland:
A Long, Hard Look at America’s Extremist Heart
by Daryl Johnson
American Contagions:
Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19
by John Fabian Witt
Fulfillment:
Winning and Losing in One-Click America
by Alec MacGillis
How We Vote:
Innovation in American Elections
by Kathleen Hale & Mitchell Brown
In the Arena:
A History of American Presidential Hopefuls
by Peter Shea
Things Come Together:
Africans Achieving Greatness in the Twenty-First Century
by Robert I. Rotberg
Sociology
This Could Be Our Future:
A Manifesto for a More Generous World
by Yancey Strickler
Work: A Deep History,
from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots
by James Suzman
There Plant Eyes:
A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness
by M. Leona Godin
Mouths of Rain:
An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought
by Briona Simone Jones
Psychology
The Kindness of Strangers:
How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code
by Michael E. McCullough
The Quick Fix:
Why Fad Psychology Can’t Cure Our Social Ills
by Jesse Singal
The Origins of You:
How Childhood Shapes Later Life
by Jay Belsky et al.
Beginners:
The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning
by Tom Vanderbilt
