The Last Khan: A Drunken Russian’s Conquest of Mongolia

Print:

• The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia, by James Palmer

Online:

• Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Mongolia – Christopher Othen
• The Bloody White Baron: Six Questions for James Palmer by Scott Horton – Harper’s Magazine
• Outer Mongolian Revolution: Tibetan-Buddhist Holy Warriors & the Asiatic Cavalry Division, 1919-1922 – BrainExplor
• Baron von Ungern-Sternberg – Badass of the Week

Meet the Mino: the Warrior Women of the Dahomey Empire

Print:

• Amazons of Black Sparta, by Stanley B. Alpern
• Dahomey and the Dahomans, by Frederick E. Forbes

Online:

• Meet the Most Feared Women in History – Messy Nessy Chic
• The Dahomey Amazons – Badass of the Week
• Dahomey’s Women Warriors – Smithsonian 
• Black Panther Comics – Christopher Priest
• The Revolutionary Power Of Black Panther  by Jamil Smith – Time Magazine
• YZ and Her “Amazone” Women Warriors on Senegalese Walls – Brooklyn Street Art

Wilde at Heart: the Trials of Oscar Wilde

Print:

• Oscar Wilde, by Richard Ellmann
• Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde, by Oscar Wilde 

Online:

• The Trials of Oscar Wilde: An Account – Famous Trials
•  Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) – BBC History UK
• When Oscar Wilde’s Wit Couldn’t Save Him – Time
• Oscar Wilde is Sent to Prison for Indecency – History.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXbpox7l8r0

The Limitless Adaptation of the Wild Girl of Champagne

Print:

• An Account of a Savage Girl, Caught Wild in the Woods of Champagne, by Marie-Catherine Hommasel-Hecquet

Online:

• Rewriting the Savage: The Extraordinary Fictions of the “Wild Girl of Champagne” by Julia Douthwaite – JSTOR
• There has likely never been a more extreme rags-to-riches story than Marie Angelique Leblanc’s – Timeline

Barrage in the Garage! The Spectacle of Spider vs. Scorpion

• (Podcast) Hang Up and Listen: The Bronx Bombers’ Big Boppers Edition – Slate
• Scorpion and Black Spider Waging Duel – San Bernardino Sun, Volume 40, 24 August 1934
• Black Spider Near-Win From Scorpion – San Bernardino Sun, Volume 40, 25 August 1934
• Scorpion About to Deliver Its Final Blow When Halted by Ruling From Prosecutor – San Bernardino Sun, Volume 40, 26 August 1934

The Wild, Wild East: The Forgotten History of East Berlin’s Gay Bars

• The Iron Closet: Documentary Explores Gay and Lesbian Oppression in East Germany 
• A Berlin Neighborhood, Still Resonating with Pride – Chaney Kwak

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 Edmund Zagorin, Casey Selden, Meghan Dahl, Courtney Brown, Scott Valentine, and Aaron Doran. Thank you!