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 […]
Hybrid Book Discussion – William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia
This is the first major biography of the free Black abolitionist William Still, who coordinated the Eastern Line of the Underground Railroad and was a pillar of the Railroad as […]
Hybrid Book Discussion – The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (rev 2021)
Join Chester County History Center book discussion about thought-provoking history books and connect with others in the community. A New York Times bestseller, this definitive history of Ukraine is “an exemplary account […]
Hybrid Book Discussion – Lost Kingdom (2017) OR A Short History of Russia (2020)
Join Chester County History Center book discussion about thought-provoking history books and connect with others in the community. In Lost Kingdom, award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy argues that we can only understand […]