At present, the Club is meeting in-person at the Museum on the 3rd Monday of each month at 7:30 PM.
The History Book Club is free to Society members. If you are interested in becoming a member, visit our Join page. Contact the Museum if you would like to join us.
2026 Schedule
April 20
Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism & the Making of Modern America, Clay Risen (2025, 471 pp)
May 18
Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History, Moudhy Al-Rashid (2025, 336 pp)
June 15
Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America, Donald Miller (2014, 582 pp: 2 months)
July 20
Supreme City, cont.
No August Meeting
September 21
The Kingdom of Ice: The Grand & Terrible Voyage of the USS Jeanette, Hampton Sides (2014, 489 pp)
October 19
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine & Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital, David Oshinsky (2016, 322 pp)
November 16
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald, John Bacon (2025, 430 pp)
December 21
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World, Virginia Postrel (2020, 321 pp)
January 18, 2027
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus, Bill Wasik & Monica Murphy (2012, 297 pp)