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.
2017–2018 Schedule
- Jul. 10: Ronald White, American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
- Aug. 14: Eve McDonald, Hannibal
- Sep. 11: Maya Jasanoff, Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
- Oct. 9: Ron Chernow, Hamilton, chapters 1–18
- Nov. 13: Ron Chernow, Hamilton, ch. 19–Epilogue
- Dec. 11: Briona Nic Dhiarmada, The 1916 Irish Rebellion, along with Fearghal McGarry's The Rising: Ireland, Easter 1916
- 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)
- World History Discussion Group Past Readings
