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Readings Robert Darton, The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (New York: Basic Books, 1984), 3-5, 75-101 (pdf). Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Culture: Selected Essays by Clifford Geertz (New York: Basic Books, 1973), 3-30, 193-233, 412-53 (pdf or html). Kenneth S. Greenberg, "The Duel as Social Drama" in Masters and Statesmen: The Political Culture of American Slavery (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985), 23-41 (pdf). Rules for the Government of Principals and Seconds in Dueling (html) Excerpts from the correspondence of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr (html) John F. Kasson, "Table Manners and the Control of Appetites," in Rudeness & Civility: Manners in Nineteenth Century Urban America (New York: Hill and Wang, 1990), 182-214 (pdf). Morris Bishop, "The Great Oneida Love-In" in Randy Roberts and James S. Olson, eds., American Experience: Readings in American History, fourth edition (New York: Longman, 1998), 250-60 (pdf). Lawrence W. Levine, "The Animal Trickster" in Randy Roberts and James S. Olson, eds., American Experience: Readings in American History, fourth edition (New York: Longman, 1998), 177-202 (pdf). Alan Henry Rose, Demonic Vision: Racial Fantasy and Southern Fiction (Hamden: Archon Books, 1976), 39-62 (pdf). Theda Perdue, "Columbus Meets Pocahontas in the American South" Southern Cultures 3:1, 4-21 (pdf). David Ansen, "Becoming Marilyn," Newsweek, August 12, 2002 (pdf or html) Susan Faludi, Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man (New York: William Morrow, 1999), 3-47 (pdf). Kurt Kleiner, reviewer, Drawing the Line, salon.com (html). Matt Cartmill, A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through History, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993) [excerpt] (pdf) Louis O. Mink, "Narrative Form as Cognitive Instrument" (pdf) Jon Gertner, The Futile Pursuit of Happiness, New York Times Magazine, September 7, 2003 (pdf). The World War I letters of W.J. Currin (html) Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory (New York: Oxford University Press, 1975), 3-35 (pdf). Eric J. Leed, No Man's Land: Combat & Identity in World War I (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979), 1-38 (pdf). David Halberstam, The Fifties (New York: Villard Books, 1993), 643-66 (pdf).