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 

Pre-registration is not required · Walk-ins are welcome!