Speaker’s Book:
Alone on the Ice, by David Roberts
Sophie & Jean-Pierre Blanchard: Balloonists Extraordinaire
Online:
- First in America’s Skies – C.V. Glines for American Aviation Magazine
- Jean Pierre Blanchard (1753-1809) – The Lighter Than Air Society
- Sophie Blanchard – The High Flying Frenchwoman Who Revealed the Thrill and Danger of Ballooning – Gilbert King for Smithsonian Magazine
Print:
- Journal of my forty-fifth ascension, being the first performed in America, on the ninth of January, 1793, by Jean-Pierre Blanchard
- Wonderful Balloon Ascents: Or, The Conquest of the Skies. A History of Balloons and Balloon Voyages, by F. Marion
- The Age of Wonder, by Richard Holmes
- Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air, by Richard Holmes
- Military Ballooning During the Early Civil War, by F. Stansbury Haydon
- Aeronautics in the Union and Confederate Armies: With a Survey of Military Aeronautics Prior To 1861, by Frederick Stansbury Haydon
Theodore Roosevelt vs. the Deadly “River of Doubt”
Online:
- A Cowboy in the Jungle: Theodore Roosevelt and the River of Doubt – The Art of Manliness
- Return to the Rio Roosevelt – Canoe & Kayak
- Progresses’s Pilgrims – The New Yorker
Print:
- Through the Brazilian Wilderness, by Theodore Roosevelt
- The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey, by Candice Millard
- Roosevelt’s Beast: A Novel, by Louis Bayard
The Baroque Badassery of Artemisia Gentileschi
Online:
- Sex, Lies, and Honor in Italian Rape Law – Rachel A. Van Cleeve
- (Podcast) Long Seen as Victim, 17th Century Italian Painter Emerges as Feminist Icon – NPR
- Susanna and the Elders Restored – Kathleen Gilje
Print:
- Artimesia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art, by Mary Garrard
- Artimesia Gentileschi, by Mary Garrard
- Linda Nochlin, “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” in, Woman in Sexist Society: Studies in Power and Powerlessness, by Vivian Gornick and Barbara K Moran
Onna-Bugeisha: Warrior Women of Japan
Online:
Print:
- The Japanese Experience: A Short History of Japan, by W.G. Beasley.
- The Making of Modern Japan, by Marius B. Jansen
- The Samurai Swordsman: Master of War, by Stephen Turnbull
- Samurai Women 1184-1877, by Stephen Turnbull
- Samurai: The Story of a Warrior Tradition, by Harry Cook
- Premodern Japan, by Mikiso Hane
Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Gentleman Badass
Online:
- Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799)
- Chevalier de Saint-Georges – Badass of the Week
- List of works by Joseph Bologne Saint-Georges – Petrucci Music Library
- The Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Virtuoso of the Sword and the Bow, by Gabriel Banat
- Monsieur de Saint-George: Virtuoso, Swordsman, Revolutionary, a Legendary Life Rediscovered, by Alain Guédé
- Joseph Boulogne called Chevalier de Saint-Georges , by Emil F. Smidak
- Le Chevalier de Saint Georges, by Roger de Beauvoir
Listen:
- Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges – Audioboom
- (Podcast) No. 1 – Introducing Le Chevalier de Saint George
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO5PCMz5rgs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZUtWFLUCcM
https://www.themusicaladventuresofsaintgeorge.com/single-post/2016/12/13/Podcast-No-1—Introducing-Le-Chevalier-de-Saint-George
The Great Emu War: Tiny Brains vs. Big Guns
Online:
- The Great Emu War: In which some large, flightless birds unwittingly foiled the Australian Army – Scientific American
- The Great Emu War, Or, That Time a Mob of Flightless Birds Brought the Australian Army To Its Knees – History Buff
- (Podcast) Emu War of 1932 – Stuff You Missed in History Class
Print:
- Boom & Bust: Bird Stories for a Dry Country, by Libby Robin (Editor), Leo Joseph (Editor), Rob Heinshohn (Editor)
For each salon, we invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Justin Quimby, Leonard Apeltsin, Eva Galperin, Seth Rosenblatt, Casey Selden, and Stuart Gripman. Thank you!
