History Book Club

Please join the History Book Club to engage with like-minded history buffs as we examine different historical moments throughout the world.

Read the book prior and come to the meeting for rich conversation.

JANUARY 8
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman

FEBRUARY 5
Latinoland: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority by Marie Arana

MARCH 5
The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement by Susannah Gibson

APRIL 2
Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, The Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes by Adam Hochschild

MAY 7
James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War edited by John W. Quist and Michael J. Birkner

JUNE 4
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes by Eric Jay Dolin

JULY 2
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick

AUGUST 6
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library by Edward Wilson-Lee

SEPTEMBER 3
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard

OCTOBER 1
The Heartland: An American History by Kristin L. Hoganson

NOVEMBER 5
Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

DECEMBER 3
Amiable Scoundrel: Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Scandalous Secretary of War by Paul Kahann