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PROPS | 7 Objects That Changed History
Release Date: January 15th
Rogue teacher Norm Coady is your guide on a trip that stretches back two thousand years.
From Caesar to Kennedy, from Wittenberg to St. Petersburg, Props tackles the story of mankind through the objects that have been left behind. How did a hatchet lead to the real first world war? Why did a German prince throw a burlap sack over the head of his prized professor? What connects a piece of chalk to 70 years of Soviet rule? These are the questions and revelations of Norm Coady’s Props, a book that restores history to its glorious disorder.
Norm Coady...
has taught high school history in Brooklyn, Western Massachusetts, Marrakech and Chennai, India. He is also responsible for the youtube channel History Heads. As a boots-on-the-ground classroom teacher, he knows how to fight off clouds of spray deodorant while engaging the otherwise unreachable in the splendors of our twisted past. He works hard to shape young minds by teaching stuff he barely understands.
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Advance Praise
"Norm Coady writes history for people who take history so seriously, they read it for fun. He’s a bad-boy high school history teacher who won’t color inside the lines. But what makes Coady's work especially absorbing to readers like us is that, for all his irreverence, this guy actually knows his history. He tosses flashes of insight and often astonishing nuggets of information into his accounts with the casual aplomb of a juggler dressed as a clown."
- TAMIM ANSARY, author of THE INVENTION OF YESTERDAY
"Fun as well as informative, this is a book that is arresting and thoughtful. Read it."
- JEREMY BLACK, author of THE GEOGRAPHIES OF WAR
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