History Book Club - Previous  Selections

March 2008

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: the Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
by James D. Hornfischer

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January
2008

Wolf of the Deep: Raphael Semmes and the Notorious Confederate Raider CSS Alabama
by Stephen Fox

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November
2007

Mayflower  : A Story of Courage, Community and War
by Nathaniel Philbrick

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September
2007

Revolutionary characters : what made the founders different
by Gordon S. Wood

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July
2007

Ghost soldiers : the forgotten epic story of World War II's most dramatic mission
by Hampton Sides

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May
2007

Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
by David von Drehle

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March
2007

 

We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young: la Drang, the battle that changed the war in Vietnam
by Harold G. Moore

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January
2007

The March
 by E.L. Doctorow

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November
2006

Richmond Burning: The Last Days of the Confederate Capitol
by Nelson Lankford

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 September 2006

 Assassination Vacation
by Sarah Vowell

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July
 2006

 

 Manhunt: The Twelve Day Hunt for Lincoln's Killer
 by James L. Swanson

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March 2006

   The Lost German Slave Girl :
The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans
 By John Bailey

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January 2006

Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity
by James C. Cobb
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 November 2005

Leaving Birmingham
by Paul Hemphill
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September 2005

Praying for Sheetrock
by Melissa Fay Greene
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 July
2005

 

 Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson
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May 2005


John Adams
by David McCullough

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 March 2005

And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and
the Lynching of Leo Frank

by Steve Oney

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January 2005

 Our Fathers' Fields: A Southern Story
by James Everett Kibler

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October 2004

 Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn
by Gary M. Pomerantz

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August
2004

 

Fire in a Canebrake - cover

  Fire in a Canebrake
 by Laura Wexler

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June
2004

 

A Year in the South: Four Lives in 1865
 by Stephen V. Ash

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April
2004

 

  Cumberland Island: Strong Women, Wild Horses
 by Charles Seabrook

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January
2004

 

 Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
 by Tony Horwitz

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October
2003

  The Georgia Gold Rush: Twenty-Niners, Cherokees, and Gold Fever
 by David Williams

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