Top Ten Textbooks
Top tens are common fare for blog posts, but I’ve never written one. The following is a top ten list of the textbooks that I’ve read in twelve semesters at BJU.
- Morison, Samuel Eliot. “History as a Literary Art.” In By Land and By Sea. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953: 289-98.
- Hooper, Finley. Roman Realities. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1979.
- Morgan, Edmund. The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop. Boston: Little, Brown, 1958.
- Jensen, De Lamar. Reformation Europe: Age of Reform and Revolution. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1981. Jensen, De Lamar. Renaissance Europe: Age of Recovery and Reconciliation. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1981.
- Breisach, Ernst. Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.
- Friedman, Lawrence. A History of American Law. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973.
- Craig, Gordon. Europe, 1815-1914. Hinsdale, IL: Dryden Press, 1972.
- Billington, Ray. Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier. New York: Macmillan, 1982.
- Lloyd, Trevor. The British Empire, 1558-1995. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
- Wallace, Daniel. Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1996.
I could have easily included ten more textbooks, but these are the books that I have found most influential for both their content and their style.
A list of the ten most influential books that I’ve read for class is a different matter for (perhaps) a different post.
Posted 31 Jan. 2008 at 6:03 pm | Permalink
I’m glad to have introduced you to four of your top ten textbooks. What’s a little scary is that an earlier edition of Ray Billington’s Westward Expansion was one of my own favorite texts in the mid-1960s.