Book Discussion – American Creation (hybrid)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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 […]
Book Discussion – Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard (hybrid)
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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)
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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, […]
Book Discussion – 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann(hybrid)
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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 […]
Book Discussion – And There Was Light by John Meacham (hybrid)
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A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Hated and hailed, excoriated and revered, Abraham Lincoln was […]
Hybrid Book Discussion – Ida Tarbell: Portrait of a Muckraker
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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
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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 […]