History Readers' Group

History Readers' Group reads and discusses non-fiction history accessible to general readers and academics alike. We include both professional historians and those from other walks of life interested in exploring connections between past and present.   Discussion leaders vary from month to month; we are a participatory group.  Most books we select are about the United States, but that is a trend, not an exclusive policy.  We welcome visitors and new members.  We meet from 7:30-9 pm on the second Wednesday monthly except for December.

The Group meets at:

Motte & Bailey Booksellers
111. E. Ann Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Directions

The primary contact for the group is Michael Homel at homel [at] provide [dot] net. Please feel free to contact him if you have any questions. The next meeting will be:

10 August 2005. 7:30-9:00 p.m.

The book under discussion will be:

Edward Lilenthal
Preserving Memory: the Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum
Discussion leader Judith Rose

The book is available for sale at Motte & Bailey, Booksellers.

Upcoming books are:

14 September
Glenn C. Altschuler,
All Shook Up: How Rock 'N' Roll Changed America
Discussion leader Mike Homel

12 October 2005
Cindy Aron
Working at Play: a History of Vacations in the U. S.
Discussion leader Hal Friedman

9 November 2005
Eric Foner
Who Owns History?
Discussion leader Marsha Ackermann

Some previous books read by the History Book Club:

Ellen Litwicki
America's Public Holidays

Michael Schaller
Reckoning With Reagan: America and Its President in the 1980s.

Alan Winkler
Life Under a Cloud: American Anxiety About the Atom.

James McPherson
Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam--- The Battle That Changed the Course of the Civil War.

Lillian Faderman
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America.

Robert Gordon
Can't Be Satisfied : the Life and Times of Muddy Waters

Edward Berkowitz
America's Welfare State from Roosevelt to Reagan

Marsha Ackermann
Cool Comfort: America's Romance with Air Conditioning

Jenna Weissman Joselit
A Perfect Fit: Clothes, Character and the Promise of America

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