The Great Influenza is definitely worth checking out. I hadn't heard of the Great Molasses Flood, but will have to check it out.
It's too funny that you say that you retain more from historical novels. I ended up a history major (and military history at that) because of the trashy romance novels that I used to read at my grandmother's. They're always set against the backdrop of some major historical event and it was hysterical to realize how much detail information I knew because of them. I remember looking around one of my junior history seminars (which had about 15 students and all but two were male) and thinking, "I'll bet I'm the only person here who ended up in the major by way of romance novels." :)
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Date: 2005-08-02 07:44 pm (UTC)It's too funny that you say that you retain more from historical novels. I ended up a history major (and military history at that) because of the trashy romance novels that I used to read at my grandmother's. They're always set against the backdrop of some major historical event and it was hysterical to realize how much detail information I knew because of them. I remember looking around one of my junior history seminars (which had about 15 students and all but two were male) and thinking, "I'll bet I'm the only person here who ended up in the major by way of romance novels." :)