The World History Book Group meets the second Monday of every month at 6:00 p.m. in the Coolidge Seminar Room (1G), unless otherwise specified. Titles are democratically selected, with an emphasis on recent publications.
2018 Schedule
- Jan. 8: David Armitage, Civil Wars
- Feb. 12: Walter Isaacson, Leonardo Da Vinci, chapters 1–17
- Mar. 12: Walter Isaacson, Leonardo Da Vinci, chapters 18–end
- Apr. 9: Neil McGregor, Germany
- May 14: Jan Jarboe Russell, The Train to Crystal City
- Jun. 11: Niall Ferguson, The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, Freemasons to Facebook
- Jul. 9: Richard White, The Republic for Which It Stands: The US During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age (first half)
- Aug. 13: Richard White, The Republic for Which It Stands: The US During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age (complete book)
- Sep. 10: Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens
- Oct. 8: "Histories of Herodotus," translated by George Rawlinson (though for this discussion any translation will be fine)
- Nov. 12: Vincenzo Ferrone, The Enlightenment: A History of an Idea
- Dec. 10: Stephen Platt, Imperial Twilight: Opium War and the End of China’s Golden Age
- Jan. 14: Nisid Hajari, Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition
- World History Discussion Group Past Readings
