Book Discussion – 1493: Uncovering the New World that Columbus Created (hybrid)
Join the discussion! The bi-monthly CCHC book group selected this best-seller by Charles Mann. This book presents research by biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians that suggests how the post-Columbian network […]
Book Discussion – Boom! The Voices of the Sixties (hybrid)
Join the discussion! The bi-monthly CCHC book group has selected this book by Tom Brokaw, who brings years of journalistic insight to this publication. “One minute it was Ike and […]
Book Discussion – American Creation (hybrid)
Join the discussion! The bi-monthly CCHC book group has selected this book by acclaimed historian Joseph J. Ellis, who brings his unparalleled talents to this riveting account of the early […]
Book Discussion – White Fragility (hybrid)
Join the discussion! The bi-monthly CCHC book group has selected this New York Times best-selling book that explores the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are […]
Book Discussion – Nature’s God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic (hybrid)
Join the discussion! The bi-monthly CCHC Book Group selection for May is Nature’s God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic by Matthew Stewart. “Where did the ideas come from that […]
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 […]
Wicked Plants: The Weed that Killed Lincoln’s Mother & Botanical Atrocities
Author Amy Stewart will discuss her New York Times bestselling book, Wicked Plants, about Mother Nature’s most appalling creations!
Book Discussion – Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard (hybrid)
All are welcome to the discussion! “Crisp, concise and revealing history…. A fresh narrative that plumbs some of the most dramatic days in U.S. presidential history.” —The Washington Post James Abram […]
Book Discussion – Lenape Country by Jean Soderlund (hybrid)
All are welcome to join the discussion! Lenape Country is a sweeping narrative history of the multiethnic society of the Delaware Valley in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. After Swanendael, […]
Hybrid Book Discussion – Ida Tarbell: Portrait of a Muckraker
Ida Tarbell, a native Pennsylvanian, lived during the era in which she was known as a “muckraker.” In our time she would have been known as an investigative reporter, with […]