History High Jinks Book Club
History / Heritage - Lecture/Discussion
Monday, December 7, 2009
7:00 PM-8:00 PM
Providence Public Library, Central
Trustees Room, 3rd Floor
150 Empire Street
Providence, RI 02903
Google Maps - MapQuest
*Meets on the 1st Monday of the month unless otherwise noted. Registration required.
To register email or call Nancy: nancycallanan@cox.net; 401-787-4152.
December 7: Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877 (first half) by Eric Foner
This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) made history when it was originally published in 1988. It redefined how Reconstruction was viewed by historians and people everywhere in its chronicling of how Americans -- black and white -- responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. This “smart book of enormous strengths” (Boston Globe) has since gone on to become the classic work on the wrenching post-Civil War period -- an era whose legacy reverberates still today in the United States.
About the Author
Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University, is the author of numerous works on American history, including Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War; Tom Paine and Revolutionary America; and The Story of American Freedom. He has served as president of both the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association, and has been named Scholar of the Year by the New York Council for the Humanities.
January 4: Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877 (second half) by Eric Foner
February 1: The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends 1880-1918 by Patricia O'Toole
The Five of Hearts, who first gathered in Washington in the Gilded Age, included Henry Adams, historian and scion of America's first political dynasty; his wife, Clover, gifted photographer and tragic victim of depression; John Hay, ambassador and secretary of state; his wife, Clara, a Midwestern heiress; and Clarence King, pioneering geologist, entrepreneur, and man of mystery. They knew every president from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt and befriended Henry James, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, and a host of other illustrious figures on both sides of the Atlantic.
About the Author
Patricia O'Toole is also the author of When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House and Money and Morals in America: A History. The Five of Hearts... was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She teaches writing at Columbia University and lives in New York City.
Cost: FREE. Space is limited; reservations required.
Suggested Audiences:
Adult, College
E-mail:
lmiller@provlib.org
Phone: 401-455-8057
Last Modified: November 17, 2009 at 4:42 PM
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History High Jinks Book Club
History / Heritage - Lecture/Discussion
Monday, December 7, 2009
7:00 PM-8:00 PM
Providence Public Library, Central
Trustees Room, 3rd Floor
150 Empire Street
Providence, RI 02903
Google Maps - MapQuest
*Meets on the 1st Monday of the month unless otherwise noted. Registration required.
To register email or call Nancy: nancycallanan@cox.net; 401-787-4152.
December 7: Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877 (first half) by Eric Foner
This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) made history when it was originally published in 1988. It redefined how Reconstruction was viewed by historians and people everywhere in its chronicling of how Americans -- black and white -- responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. This “smart book of enormous strengths” (Boston Globe) has since gone on to become the classic work on the wrenching post-Civil War period -- an era whose legacy reverberates still today in the United States.
About the Author
Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University, is the author of numerous works on American history, including Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War; Tom Paine and Revolutionary America; and The Story of American Freedom. He has served as president of both the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association, and has been named Scholar of the Year by the New York Council for the Humanities.
January 4: Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877 (second half) by Eric Foner
February 1: The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends 1880-1918 by Patricia O'Toole
The Five of Hearts, who first gathered in Washington in the Gilded Age, included Henry Adams, historian and scion of America's first political dynasty; his wife, Clover, gifted photographer and tragic victim of depression; John Hay, ambassador and secretary of state; his wife, Clara, a Midwestern heiress; and Clarence King, pioneering geologist, entrepreneur, and man of mystery. They knew every president from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt and befriended Henry James, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, and a host of other illustrious figures on both sides of the Atlantic.
About the Author
Patricia O'Toole is also the author of When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House and Money and Morals in America: A History. The Five of Hearts... was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She teaches writing at Columbia University and lives in New York City.
Cost: FREE. Space is limited; reservations required.
Suggested Audiences: Adult, College
E-mail: lmiller@provlib.org
Phone: 401-455-8057
Last Modified: November 17, 2009 at 4:42 PM
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