Unique UConn Book Sale An Intellectual Open Bar For History Buffs

STORRS, CT — To history buffs, an upcoming book sale at the University of Connecticut is arguably an intellectual open bar.

The used book sale is being sponsored by UConn's history department and features 1,500-plus titles donated by faculty members. It is sated for April 21 from noon to 4 p.m. and April 22 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the basement lounge of Wood Hall, 241 Glenbrook Road, on the Storrs campus.

Books will be four for $1 or 25 cents each, cash only. "Quantity" discounts will be available.

Proceeds from the sale will go to the history department student activities fund.

Here is a sampling of titles:

• Alexander Hamilton: American
• Ebb Tide In New England: Women, Seaports, and Social Change, 1630-1800
• Madame Bovary on Trial
• The Hudson: America's River
• The End of the European Era: 1890 to the Present (The Norton History of Modern Europe)
• Karl Marx: His Life and Environment
• Charles Darwin and the Problem of Creation
• From Trust to Terror: The Onset of the Cold War, 1945-50
• How to Lie with Statistics
• Hiroshima in America
• Enola Gay and the Court of History (Frontiers in Political Communication)
• The Secret History of Wonder Woman
• A History of the British Isles
• Selections from the Essays of T.H. Huxley
• Roosevelt and Churchill,: Their secret wartime correspondence
• Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation: A Political History of Comic Books in Mexico
• Great Speeches (Dover Thrift Editions: Speeches/Quotations)
• The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution
• The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century
• Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
• The 9/11 Commission Report with Related Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
• Title IX: A Brief History wtih Documents (The Bedford Series in History And Culture)
• Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
• Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland before the Holocaust
• President Nixon: Alone in the White House
• The Army of The Potomac 3 volume set Glory Road; A Stillness At Appomattox and Mr. Lincoln's Army
• The Geronimo Campaign