Book Discussion – 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann(hybrid)

A groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492—from “a remarkably engaging writer” (The New York Times Book Review). Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there […]

Book Discussion – An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (hybrid)

Join the discussion! The bi-monthly CCHC Book  Group selection for March is An Indigenous Peoples' History of the U.S. by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. "Today in the U.S. there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land....Now, for the first […]

Book Discussion – Silent Spring OR The Serviceberry OR Braiding Sweetgrass(hybrid)

Join the discussion!  The bi-monthly CCHC book group selected three books. Silent Spring Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring altered the course of history. The outcry that followed its publication in 1962 forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson’s passionate concern for the future of […]