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The University of Texas List of Unrequired Reading
This is not a list of the books we think every student should read. Rather, its purpose is to encourage reading and to provide a good starting point and plan for future reading. Alternate titles are provided because we recognize the vast differences among individuals in reading experience and taste. We encourage you to start by following your own inclinations.
The topics covered in these volumes are a good sampling of the most important ideas and events responsible for intellectual life and struggle in Western Civilization. A serious effort to examine at least selected topics in history, literature, philosophy, and science is an essential beginning in your education beyond secondary school. And this effort does not have to constitute a great burden. Only one book per month completes the reading program.
After you get well into the list, we believe you will want to explore other perspectives and opinions. If you do, we will conclude that this reading project has been a success.
The topics covered in these volumes are a good sampling of the most important ideas and events responsible for intellectual life and struggle in Western Civilization. A serious effort to examine at least selected topics in history, literature, philosophy, and science is an essential beginning in your education beyond secondary school. And this effort does not have to constitute a great burden. Only one book per month completes the reading program.
After you get well into the list, we believe you will want to explore other perspectives and opinions. If you do, we will conclude that this reading project has been a success.
Celebrate our 50 states with the United States Mint's 50 State Quarters® Program. Thanks to this innovative ten-year program, every 10 weeks you will see a new state's quarter - released in the order states were admitted into the Union.
Since I couldn't find a comprehensive set of pictures of them all, I mined the mint web site to produce a collection of all of them, with links back to the mint web site, incase you're interested in any details on it.