History Book Group

The History Book Group is an informal group which meets at 7 p.m. on the the last Thursday of every month (with exception of November and December), for people with an interest in history - local, U.S. and world history. The group meets in the Conference Room on the lower level of the main library. The group is led by Library volunteer Bob Hanlon. If you are interested in taking part in future discussions please ask for copies of the books at the library's front desk, or contact Bob Hanlon at bob_hanlon@hotmail.com.

Upcoming Discussions:

2012 Titles:

• November 29th A City so Grand: The Rise of an American Metropolis, Boston 1850-1900 by Stephen Puleo
  
• December 20th The Shoemaker and the Tea Party : Memory and the American Revolution by Alfred F. Young
  

2013 Titles:

January 31st Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Montefiore

February 28th Genghis Khan by Jack Weatherford

March 28th The Great Plague by A Lloyd and Dorothy Moote

April 25th Changes in the Land by William Cronon

May 30th People's History of the American Revolution by Ray Raphael

June 27th George Washington’s False Teeth by Robert Darnton

September 26th Champlain’s Dream by David Hacket Fischer

October 24th Midnight Rising by Tony Horwitz

November 21st 1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart

December 19th The Whites of their Eyes by Jill Lepore

Please note the dates for 2013. For October – December, we will not be meeting on our usual last Thursday of the month due to Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Past titles for this group:

• March 29th Grant and Sherman: The Friendship that won the Civil War by Charles Bracelen Flood
  
• April 26th The Murrow Boys : Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism by Stanley W. Cloud
  
• May 31st Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 by Pauline Maier
  
• June 28th A voyage Long and Strange : Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz
  
• September 27th Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of WWII by John W. Dower
  
• October 25th Cleopatra : A Life by Stacy Schiff

• January 26, 2012: Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
  
• February 23, 2012: A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of The American Nation by Catherine Allgor

• November 17th, 2011 - The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis
• December 15th, 2011 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Lori Ginzberg

 

• Oliver Wiswell by Kenneth Lewis Roberts
• The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
• A Midwife’s Tale by Laurel T. Ulrich
• Nothing like it in the World by Stephen Ambrose
• The Peabody Sisters by Megan Marshall
• Masters of the Air by Donald Miller
• Tried by War by James McPherson
• The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed
• The Scratch of a Pen by Collin C. Halloway
• Paul Revere's Ride by David Hacket Fisher
• The Last Apocalypse by James Reston
• The March of Folly by Barbara Tuchman
• Vanished Smile by Rita Scotti
• Salt by Mark Kurlansky