Football Season

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Nonfiction: How Football Explains America by Sal Paolantonio
Novel: North Dallas Forty by Peter Gent
Nonfiction: Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger
Film: Any Given Sunday (1999)
Film: Horse Feathers (1932)
Film: The Waterboy (1998)
Film: Remember the Titans (2000)
YouTube: "The Super Bowl Shuffle:The Bears"
Wikipedia: Formation (American football)

Blacklisted!

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Article: "I'm No Communist" by Humphrey Bogart
Documentary short: The Hollywood Ten (1950)
Film: The Majestic (2001)
Film: Guilty by Suspicion (1991)
Memoir: I'd Hate Myself in the Morning by Ring Lardner Jr.
Article: "Hollywood Blacklist" by Dan Georgakas
Article: "Many Refuse to Clap as Kazan Receives Oscar" by Patrick Goldstein
Article: "How the Film and Television Blacklists Worked" by Richard A. Schwartz
Memoir: Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist by Bernard Gordon
Wikipedia: Hollywood blacklist

The Cold War

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Memoir: Thirteen Days by Robert F. Kennedy
Film: The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Film: From Russia with Love (1963)
Film: Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Website: http://www.coldwar.org/
Webpage: http://www.inthe80s.com/coldwar.shtml
Nonfiction: The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
Novel: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
Song: "Leningrad" by Billy Joel
Wikipedia: History of Soviet and Russian espionage in the United States

What meaning "Freak"?

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Film: Freaks (1932)
Television: Freaks and Geeks, "Tricks and Treats"
Novel: Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
Song: "Superfreak" by Rick James
Song: "Le Freak" by The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
Song: "Freak" by Silverchair
Nonfiction: Jesus Freaks by dc Talk
Manga: Anne Freaks Volume 1 by Yua Kotegawa
Novel: Freak by Marcella Pixley
Blog: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/
Wikipedia: Freak

Math Is Fun

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Film: Good Will Hunting (1997)
Nonfiction: Radical Equations, chapter four, "Bouncing a Ball" by Robert P. Moses and Charles E. Cobb
Nonfiction: Kiss My Math by Danica McKellar
Television: Numb3rs, "Sabotage"
Nonfiction: The Golden Ratio by Mario Livio
Novel: Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
Comics: Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos, Annie Di Donna
Songs: "Lobachevsky" and "That's Mathematics" and "New Math" by Tom Lehrer
Wikipedia: Srinivasa Ramanujan

Death Row

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Nonfiction: Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean
Comics: "Ready to Die" by Kim Dietch
Poetry: One Big Self by C.D. Wright
Soundtrack: Murder Was the Case (1994)
Album: Murder by Johnny Cash
Television: Oz, "Dead Man Talking"
Film: The Green Mile (1999)
Memoir: Blue Rage, Black Redemption by Stanley Tookie Williams
Wikipedia: Capital punishment in the United States

Elephant Abuse

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Essay: "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell
Short story: "Almost Shooting an Elephant" by T.C. Boyle
Novel: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Short story: "Toomai of the Elephants" by Rudyard Kipling
Music: The Carnival of the Animals, "The Elephant" by Camille Saint-Saëns
Film: Dumbo (1941)
Nonfiction: The Cowboy and His Elephant by Malcolm Macpherson
Novella: The Elephants of Poznan by Orson Scott Card
Webpage: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Top/ecomments/4732/
Wikipedia: Elephant intelligence

Orpheus

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Myth: "Orpheus and Eurydice" by Edith Hamilton
Myth: "Orpheus and Eurydice" by James W. Bright
Novel: The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
Film: Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Film: Black Orpheus (1959)
Comics: The Sandman: Fables and Reflections by Neil Gaimain et al
Poem: "Ode for St. Cecilia's Day" by Alexander Pope
Poetry: "Orpheus and Eurydice" by Gregory Orr
Children's novel: Legend Of Orpheus And Eurydice by Michael Cadnum
Operetta: Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach
Wikipedia: Orpheus

The S*x Question

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Nonfiction: Is Sex Necessary? by James Thurber and E. B. White
Nonfiction: Dave Barry's Guide to Marriage and/or Sex by Dave Barry
Film: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex.... (1972)
Article: "Will science render men unnecessary?" by Brian Alexander
Short story: "The Chaste Planet" by John Updike
Short story: "Chaste Clarissa" by John Cheever
Song: Making Whoopee by Frank Sinatra
Novel: Candide by Voltaire
Novel: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Wikipedia: Human sexuality

American Mythology: Einstein

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Novel: Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
Nonfiction: Driving Mr. Albert by Michael Paterniti
Film: I.Q. (1994)
Article: "Albert Einstein: Person of the Century" by Frederic Golden
Nonfiction: Einstein's Mistakes by Hans C. Ohanian
Opera: Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass
Website: http://www.biography.com/deathiversary/albert_einstein/albert_einstein.jsp
Website: http://www.geniusbabies.com/baby-einstien.html
Wikipedia: Albert Einstein

Visions of Blue Men

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Novel: The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
Television: 30 Rock, "Tracy Does Conan"
DVD: Blue Man Group - The Complex Rock Tour Live
Picture book: Smurf Cake by Peyo
Comics: Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Photography book: Moko--Maori tattoo by Hans Neleman
Novel: The Blue Man by Kin Platt
Wikipedia: Blues

Contemporary Views of American Slavery

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Novel: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Letter: "Slavery a Positive Good" by John C. Calhoun
Speech: "The 'Mudsill' Theory" by James Henry Hammond
Speech: "An address to the Negroes in the state of New-York" by Jupiter Hammon
Autobiography: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
Autobiography: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
Website: http://www.localdial.com/users/jsyedu133/Soulreview/Understandingpages/coded.htm
Wikipedia: Slave narrative

Slavery: the way it looks from here

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Miniseries: Roots (1977)
Novel: Kindred by Octavia Butler
Novel: Beloved by Toni Morrison
Children's novel: To Be A Slave by Julius Lester
Picture book: Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine and Kadir Nelson
Article: "Rappers Rock a Different Chain" by Benjamin Meadows-Ingram
Song: "Equiano's Tears" by Soweto Kinch
Wikipedia: Slavery in the United States

Slave No More

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Nonfiction: Monsieur de Saint-George by Alain Guédé
Autobiography: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
Album: From the Plantation to the Penitentiary by Wynton Marsalis
Poem: “Biography” by Le Roi Jones
Film: Amistad (1997)
Novel: The Third Life of Grange Copeland by Alice Walker
Wikipedia: Freedman's Savings Bank

Vampires (not dracula)

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Novel: Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice
Novel: Bunnicula by James and Deborah Howe
Novel: You Suck by Christopher Moore
Short story: "The Vampyre" by John William Polidor
Film: Vampyr (1932)
Film: Salem's Lot (1979)
Film: Vampire Hunter D (1985)
Nonfiction: Sex and the Slayer by Lorna Jowett
Comics: 30 Days of Night by Steve Niles et al
Painting: Vampyren by Edvard Munch
Television: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "The Wish"
Song: "We Hunger" by Sioxie and the Banshees
Wikipedia: Vampire folklore by region

Dracula: King of Vampires

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Novel: Dracula by Bram Stoker
Novel: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Music: Dracula by Philip Glass and Kronos Quartet
Short story: "Abraham's Boys" by Joe Hill
Nonfiction: In Search of Dracula by Radu Florescu and Raymond T. McNally
Film: Nosferatu (1922)
Film: Dracula (1931)
Film: Dracula (1958)
Film: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Comics: Batman & Dracula: Red Rain by Doug Moench and Kelley Jones
Wikipedia: Count Dracula

The Sins of Baseball

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Nonfiction: Shut Out by Howard Bryant
Nonfiction: Juiced by Jose Canseco
Play: Cobb by Lee Blessing
Film: Eight Men Out (1988)
Short story: "Beanball" by Ron Carlson
Webpage: http://www.eastlandmemorial.org/landis0.shtml
Article: "The Old Ball Game" by Charles Cohen
YouTube: "Johnny Bench angry with Pete Rose"
Wikipedia: Major League Baseball scandals

Minor Leagues, Major Dreams

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Novel: The Brothers K by David James Duncan
Nonfiction: Minor Miracles by David Pietrusza
Film: Long Gone (1987)
Film: Bull Durham (1988)
Article: “Diamond dreams” by Matthew Jaffe
Article: “Playing Catch-up” by Michael Leahy
Article: "Characters: The King of Swing" by Andy Simmons
Wikipedia: Minor league baseball

Baseball’s Early Days

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Nonfiction: Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1889
Short story collection: The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories by Zane Grey
Documentary: Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns, "1st Inning - Our Game", "2nd Inning - Something Like A War" and "3rd Inning - The Faith of Fifty Million People"
Article: Birdland: "Two observations on the cultural significance of baseball" by Gerald Early
Article: “Tobacco Baseball Cards and Wagner’s own Wagner Card” by Frank Ceresi
Website: http://wiki.vbba.org/
Novel: The Cleveland Indian by Luke Salisbury
Wikipedia: Origins of baseball

Baseball: The American Mythology

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Novel: Summerland by Michael Chabon
Novel: Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella
Film: Field of Dreams (1989)
Film: The Natural (1984)
Poem: “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Short film: Casey Bats Again (1954)
Nonfiction: Did Babe Ruth Call His Shot? and Other Unsolved Mysteries of Baseball by Paul Aron
Wikipedia: Take Me Out to the Ball Game