History Book Club
Date | Title |
|---|---|
May 27, 2025 | France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain by Julian Jackson |
April 29, 2025 | New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West by David E. Sanger and Mary K. Brooks |
March 25, 2025 | Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism by Maurice Isserman |
Feb. 28, 2025 | Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh |
Jan. 28, 2025 | We Are Not One People: Secession and Separatism in American Politics Since 1776 by Michael J. Lee and R. Jarrod Atchison |
Nov. 26, 2024 | The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides |
Oct. 29, 2024 | Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind by Annalee Newitz |
Sept. 24, 2024 | Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin |
May 28, 2024 | How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr |
April 30, 2024 | Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich |
March 26, 2024 | In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950 by Nick Bunker |
Feb. 27, 2024 | The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann |
Jan. 30, 2024 | American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild |
Nov. 28, 2023 | President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier by C.W. Goodyear |
Oct. 31, 2023 | Accessory to War: the Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military by Neal deGrasse Tyson |
Sept. 26, 2023 | Overreach by Owen Matthews |
May 30, 2023 | South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry |
April 25, 2023 | Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller. |
March 28, 2023 | River Kings: a New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads by Cat Jarman |
Feb. 28, 2023 | Last Boat Out of Shanghai: the Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's China by Helen Zia |
Jan. 31, 2023 | Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernández |
Nov. 29, 2022 | Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness by Elzabeth D. Samet |
Oct. 25, 2022 | Empire of the Scalpel by Ira Rutkow |
Sept. 27, 2022 | Sea of Glory by Nathaniel Philbrick. |
May 31, 2022 | Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism by Bhu Srinivasan |
April 26, 2022 | Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History by Alex von Tunzelmann |
March 29, 2022 | This is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyber Weapons Arms Race by Nicole Perloth |
Feb. 22, 2022 | After the Fall: Being America in the World We've Made by Ben Rhodes |
Jan. 25, 2022 | Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by Mike Duncan |
Nov. 30, 2021 | Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn (This is part of the One Book, One Community reading project.) |
Oct. 26, 2021 | Why Did Europe Conquer the World? by Philip T. Hoffman |
Sept. 28, 2021 | The Trouble with Taiwan by Kalley Wu Tzu Hui and Kerry Brown |
May 25, 2021 | Battlegrounds: the Fight to Defend the Free World by H. R. McMaster |
April 27, 2021 | For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History by Sarah Rose |
March 30, 2021 | Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson |
Feb. 23, 2021 | Bad Blood by John Carreyrou |
Jan. 26, 2021 | Nuclear Country by Catherine McNicol Stock |
Nov. 24, 2020 | Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity and Helped Cause the Civil War by Steve Inskeep |
Oct. 27, 2020 | The Hot Zone by Richard Preston |
Sept. 29, 2020 | Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein |
March 30, 2020 | Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law that Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and other European Immigrants out of America by Daniel Okrent |
Feb. 25, 2020 | Checkpoint Charlie: the Cold War, the Berlin Wall and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Iain MacGregor |
Jan.28, 2020 | Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris |
Nov. 26, 2019 | Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation by Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw |
Oct. 29, 2019 | Presidents of War by Michael Beschloss |
Sept. 24, 2019 | Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez |
May 28, 2019 | The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer |
April 30, 2019 | Zucked: Waking up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee |
March 26, 2019 | Energy: A Human History by Richard Rhodes |
Feb. 26, 2019 | From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador to Putin’s Russia by Michael McFaul |
Jan. 29, 2019 | Billion Dollar Spy: a True Story of Cold War Espionage by David Hoffman |
Nov. 27, 2018 | Connections by James Burke |
Oct. 30, 2018 | Enemies: The History of the FBI by Tim Weiner |
Sept. 25, 2018 | Crimsoned Prairie by S.L.A. Marshall |
May 29, 2018 | Who Lost Russia?: How the World Entered a New Cold War by Peter Conradi |
April 24, 2018 | The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan |
March 27, 2018 | Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power by Howard W. French |
Feb. 27, 2018 | Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden |
Jan. 30, 2018 | Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann |
Nov. 28, 2017 | An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson |
Oct. 31, 2017 | The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top Secret Military Research Agency by |
Sept. 26, 2017 | The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War by Robert Gordon |
May 30, 2017 | Black Flags: The Rise of Isis by Joby Warrick |
April 25, 2017 | Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times by Odd Westad |
March 28, 2017 | Going It Alone: Fargo Grapples with the Great Depression by David Danbom |
Feb. 28, 2017 | Cadillac Desert: the American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner |
Jan. 31, 2017 | The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes |
Nov. 29, 2016 | Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition by Nisid Hajari |
Oct. 25, 2016 | On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City by Alice Goffman |
Sept. 27, 2016 | Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter |
May 31, 2016 | Pitching Around Fidel: A Journey into the Heart of Cuban Sports by S.L. Price |
April 26, 2016 | Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Ship by Robert Kurson |
March 29, 2016 | The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kernan |
Feb. 23, 2016 | The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited by Louisa Lim |
Jan. 26, 2016 | Lawrence in Arabia by Scott Anderson |
Nov. 24, 2015 | Charlatan: American's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock |
Oct. 27, 2015 | The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer |
Sept. 29, 2015 | Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond |
May 26, 2015 | Savage Harvest: A Tail of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art by Carl Hoffman |
April 28, 2015 | Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John Dower |
March 31, 2015 | Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal by Abigail Carrol |
Feb 24, 2015 | Outside the Gates of Eden: The Dream of America from Hiroshima to Nowby by Peter Bacon Hales |
Jan 27, 2015 | Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuff |
Nov. 25, 2014 | 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War by Charles Emmerson |
Oct. 28, 2014 | Confederates In the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz |
Sept. 30, 2014 | The Westies: Inside New York’s Irish Mob by T.J. English |
May 25, 2014 | A Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe by Marci Shore |
April, 29, 2014 | Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden |
March 25, 2014 | House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid |
Feb. 25, 2014 | Embers of War by Fredrik Logeval |
Jan. 28, 2014 | Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937 – 1948 by Madeleine Albright |
Nov. 26, 2013 | Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow |
Oct. 29, 2013 | Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson |
Sept. 24, 2013 | The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan |
Feb. 28, 2013 | Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota by Chuck Klosterman |
April 30, 2013 | War by Sabastian Junger |
March 26, 2013 | On Disobedience by Erik Fromm |
Feb. 26, 2013 | New Jack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover |
Jan. 29, 2013 | Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 72 by Hunter S. Thompson |