Sounds good. I ordered it tonight. -----Original Message----- From: Dave Walden <dave.walden.family@gmail.com> Sender: members-bounces@sigcis.org Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:24:53 To: <members@SIGCIS.org> Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] _History Hunting_ by James Cortada I heard about _History Hunding: A Guide for Fellow Adventurers_ last Friday. I ordered a copy from Amazon Saturday and it arrived the day before yesterday. I have now read it, and I recommend it to you. The book is partially a memoir of Cortada's life as a historian, partially a how-to book, and partially a statement of what Cortada believes are the proper roles of history and historians. (This is my summary, not his.) As an amateur historian of computing history, I think the book is wonderful. It is fun and easy to read. It is educational. It is inspirational ! I suspect it would be an outstanding book to assign to college students of history who have not yet decided whether to follow the academic tenure track approach to history or find some other way to do history while following a less prescribed career path. The book also discusses how historians in the academy might participate in bigger, less individual history pursuits. It is very complimentary to librarians, archivists, used bookstore owners, etc., as people who can help historians. Reading the book is going to adjust somewhat my approach to "doing history." _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members@sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members