Events

August Topic:  American Reconstruction Book choices:  Reconstruction:  America's Unfinished Revolution by Eric Foner Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter Black Reconstruction in America by W.E.B. DuBois The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner

September Topic:  The Age of Reagan Book choices:  Reagan: The Life by H. W. Brands An American Life by Ronald Reagan Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984-1988 by Jane Mayer & Doyle McManus Tip and The Gipper: When Politics Worked by Chris Matthews

October Topic:  Scandals, Secrets, and Power Book choices:  All The President's Men by Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein The Final Days by Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein 1929:  Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History- and How It Shattered a Nation by Andrew Ross Sorkin Enemies: A History of the FBI by Tim Weiner

November Topic:  Immigration and the American Identity Book choices:  Forgotten Ellis Island by Lori Conway Islands of Hope, Island of Tears by David Brownstone, Irene Frank & Douglas Brownstone The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson Becoming American: Immigration and Assimilation in Late 19th Century America by Thomas Archdeacon