The History Book Club discussion

Hi, I'm Michele and I'm really new to GR groups (this is group #2 for me). I've been a "reader" since I could beg someone to teach me. I hold a PhD in British history and lit from the University of Texas, Dallas, but promptly became a homeschooling Mom for the ensuing 14 years. I miss conversations with folks who read broadly in non-fiction.

There are few genres I won't read if well written, but I particularly enjoy the history of science, etymology and linguistics,

(Sorry for the 2-part intro - clerical error on my part. )

Stuart era history and lit, and the history of handwork. I'm wanting to read more about Scottish history and philosophy (Hume is first up) and post-Roman British history.

I'm better in print than in person, prefer handcrafts and an audiobook to TV, but appreciate a good storyline in a video game, too. My fiction reads tend toward fantasy, but I'm pretty particular.

What a nice introduction, Michele (both parts). We welcome you to The History Book Club. We have a variety of folders which may interest you. There are many topics for you to peruse and we have discussions on lots of different books. Hope you can join in.

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Tom Webber - I am pleased to join this group. I enjoy reading history - now that school is well behind and I do not have to memorize dates. I should add that the books I read in high school (late 50's) and college (early 60's) are no match for today's books. I believe we are living in a real golden age of history. The authors are very good; research tools are better; and there is so much more information available from government and private sources. In US history, I have found books on early American history to be exceptional, as well as books on WWII.

Welcome!

Welcome Tom, thank you for your interesting introduction. We are happy that you have joined us in the History Book Club. With your background and interest in history, you may want to explore the following threads:

American History
World War II

There are many other folders where you can discuss topics that may interest you as well. Here is a list of focus areas:

History Book Club's Focus Areas

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by Ron Chernow

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Lorna
Admin - Civil Rights and Supreme Court

Welcome rogues and Michele from all of us at the History Book Club. We are happy that you have joined us. Thank you both for your very interesting introductions. I am sure that you will find a lot of information pertaining to your interests. We look forward to your participation.

Lorna
Admin - Civil Rights and Supreme Court

Hello all... my name is Sam an I started reading history an biography's as a hobby in my early 30's which in my case would be thirty years ago. It was a natural for me as my interest's in school were science & history; not to mention my best grades. My interests are more in 'what got us here' an 'interesting people' more so than what's going on 'while' we're here. I guess you could say it is the things that led up to where we are, decisions made, roads taken with all the stumbles an miscues an sometimes right choices.

Dylan - you will be hearing from one of our admins soon who will help you out with our rules and guidelines which we warn you about before you post for the first time. You are correct - We do not allow self promotion or spam.

Hi, I'm Michelle from Lil' Rhody (Rhode Island). I think I failed to introduce myself when I first joined this group and just jumped into the discussion threads. Apologies.

I love history and I am always looking for new books and eras to explore.

Outside of reading I enjoy biking, running, gardening and hiking. I am always amazed by the outdoors and my happiest days are those when I get to sit outside and read (and sometimes nap). I love the ocean and have been exploring the history that surrounds me here in this little state. Recently I visited the Saugus Iron Works outside of Boston.

I've just started by Mary Beard and hope to jump into the discussion.

Welcome Sam, thank you for your very nice introduction. We are happy that you have joined us in the History Book Club. With your interest in history, I'm sure that you will find many focus areas to interest you as well as featured books.

There are many other folders where you can discuss topics that may interest you as well. Here is a list of focus areas:

History Book Club's Focus Areas

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by Ron Chernow

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Lorna
Admin - Civil Rights and Supreme Court

Welcome Michelle to the History Book Club. We are happy that you have joined us and that you have been participating in the discussion threads.

There are many other folders where you can discuss topics that may interest you Here is a list of focus areas:

History Club's Focus Areas

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by Mary Beard

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Lorna
Admin - Civil Rights and Supreme Court

Welcome, new members Sam and Michelle! You might want to check out our 50 BOOKS IN 2017 section. You can see what other folks have been reading and may find great suggestions there. Or you may want to participate. (You don't actually have to reach the goal of 50 books, but it's nice to have something to shoot for.)

Vicki wrote: "Welcome, new members Sam and Michelle! You might want to check out our 50 BOOKS IN 2017 section. You can see what other folks have been reading and may find great suggestions there. Or you may want..."

Thank you Vicki and Lorna for the welcome!

Hello, I'm Elizabeth (Zab for short), and I'm very excited to join this group.

As anyone who's met me can tell you, history and books are my two favorite things (along with my dog). Even when I try to take a break from reading history books and get into something else, I always find myself tempted by another book about the past.

I look forward to picking up some new books and discussing history with all of you!

Hello! I go by Publius. I'm in the U.S.

My professional area of study is Classical history, but I am also passionate about early U.S. history, from the Revolutionary period to the Civil War. My primary focus is usually on the causes and consequences of slavery and the politics surrounding it, particularly in respect to the founders and their various views, actions, and inaction. As far as Classics, I've read a ton of primary sources, but I'm working on spreading out to some more modern texts.

I'm very shy, but I also have strong opinions about everything (while remaining polite about it), so I'm excited to be in this group.

Hello and thanks for the add to the group, my name is Michael Kuras and I live in Texas at the moment after leaving the Active side of the US Army to join the Reserves. I am Majoring in History where I one day hope to become a curator and help preserve our History. I love reading about War History and can talk on and on about the Civil War and War World 2 but I also love and have a passion for the Space Race and anything to do with Nasa. I also collect anything to deal with History including old magazines, books, pictures and coins to name a few.

Lorna wrote: "Welcome Sam, thank you for your very nice introduction. We are happy that you have joined us in the History Book Club. With your interest in history, I'm sure that you will find many focus areas to..."

Thanks Lorna..I'll mostly be looking for things to read (using these pages an hoping my local library has it) rather than comment on what I've read or comment on others choices....not to be offensive just my plate is rather full on the internet...I game a lot btw...an read when there's nothing interesting on TV, which is most of the time... :)

Welcome, Michael . Glad you could join us. Thanks for your service and I wish you great success in the archives world. You picked a great spot to read awesome history books.

We have a topic on

Second World War

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Bryan
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Presidential Series

Vicki - here is one for you which I moved from another thread:

Dain - https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/3...

Hi, my name's Liz, I'm retired and live in rural Suffolk. I've always been slightly obsessed by the First WorldWar - to the extent of making my reluctant husband spend some of our honeymoon in trenches and cemeteries around Ypres. I possess probably hundreds of WW1 books (mostly, I admit British and Western front) but am always finding there's more to know and read.
Currently I'm interested in what happened when the guns fell silent. I know the system of demobilisation seemed very unfair to the Tommies, huge unemployment followed, and of course the influenza pandemic. I've read 'The Eleventh hour', and 'The great silence' and Adam Thorpe wrote an interesting novel called '1921'. I'm currently reading 'Six Weeks' (life expectancy of a junior officer) by John Lewis-Stempel, which has a good chapter on the aftermath. Has anyone got any recommendations?
I'm also interested to a slightly lesser extent in the American Civil War, the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny - and aspects of WW2.
I may be on the wrong thread here, but I hope not!

This thread is only for introductions from New Members and for their welcomes.

Expanded discussions should take place in the proper topical folder.

Otherwise - they will be moved to the appropriate folder.

Hi, Randy here. I am a US tax lawyer with an interest in all eras and geographies. I do have a particular interest in the American colonial and revolutionary eras, which brings together my interests in constitutional law and theory and political history/theory/philosophy. Joining this group is likely dangerous because I will want to try to read everything mentioned but sadly do not have time to do so.

What a nice introduction, Liz. We welcome you to The History Book Club. We have a variety of folders which may interest you. There are many topics for you to peruse and we have discussions on lots of different books. Hope you can join in.

Based on your post, you may find something to interest you in this topic:

World War I

I suggest you check out our homepage and see what else we have to offer. You can access it through this link:

History Book Club main page

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by Hugh Cecil (no photo)
by Juliet Nicolson
by Adam Thorpe
by John Lewis-Stempel

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Vicki
Assisting Moderator – Ancient Roman History

Welcome to our group, Randy! We have many different topics and books being discussed here so please feel free to explore and jump in.

Based on your post, you may find something to interest you in this topic:

American history

I suggest you check out our homepage and see what else we have to offer. You can access it through this link:

History Book Club main page

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by Adrian Goldsworthy

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Vicki
Assisting Moderator – Ancient Roman History

Welcome Liz - I think you will like our Military Series threads and folders.

Glad to have you with us and that Vicki could help you.

Regards,

Bentley

Welcome Elizabeth (Zab) and Publius from all of us at the History Book Club. We are happy that you have joined us. Thank you both for your very interesting introductions. I am sure that you will find a lot of information pertaining to your interests in history. We look forward to your participation.

Lorna
Admin - Civil Rights and Supreme Court

Welcome Michael, Liz and Randy from all of us at the History Book Club. We are happy that you have joined us. Thanks to each of you for your very interesting introductions. You should find a lot of information pertaining to your varied interests in history. We look forward to your participation.

Lorna
Admin - Civil Rights and Supreme Court

hi! my name is alley and I love to read history, non fiction, and Bukowski just to be short. :-)

oh! and this is the 1st group I've joined because I need a challenge that I know i'll enjoy haha...I'm from America as well!

There is no self promotion on the History Book Club. All such posts are deleted but can be reposted minus the self promotion.

Jack, Lorna (one of our admins) will be contacting you to give you some assistance. She already posted a welcome for you.

Welcome Alley - you should have fun with the challenges.

Welcome Jack, thank you for your very interesting introduction. We are happy that you have joined us in the History Book Club. With your background and interest in history, I'm sure that you will find many focus areas to interest you.

There are many other folders where you can discuss topics that may interest you as well. Here is a list of focus areas:

History Book Club's Focus Areas

Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you comment. (There is a link on the top right of the comment box). It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the Goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them.

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by Ron Chernow

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https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

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Lorna
Admin - Civil Rights and Supreme Court

Welcome Alley to the History Book Club. We are happy that you have joined us and that you chose our group.

There are many other folders where you can discuss topics that may interest you. Here is a list of focus areas:

History Club's Focus Areas
Ireland - The Luck of the Irish Reading Challenge

Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you comment. (There is a link on the top right of the comment box). It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the Goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them.

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Lorna
Admin - Civil Rights and Supreme Court

Lorna,
thanks so much for the helpful tips! i think I've picked my book for the challenge in hopes that pour library has it! lol again, thanks so much and i can't wait to read! 🤓

Welcome to all the new members 😊

Hi all! I'm new to goodreads and the group. I've been a sporadic reader for most of my adult life; mostly fiction in the action/adventure genre with some non-fiction sprinkled in, mostly modern military and the War on Terror.

At the end of July I started a habit of waking up early to read for at least an hour every morning. I found that I truly love to read and enjoy it much more than wasted time watching TV or on social media. I've decided to dedicate my time to reading biographies and learning more about U.S. history.

Starting this journey with by Ron Chernow

Welcome Will, thank you for your interesting introduction. We are happy that you have joined us in the History Book Club. You are to be commended for your early morning reading.

Based on your areas of interest, you may want to explore the following focus areas:

Military History
United States History
United States Constitution

There are many other folders where you can discuss topics that may interest you. Here is a list of focus areas:

History Book Club's Focus Areas

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by Ron Chernow

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Lorna
Admin - Civil Rights and Supreme Court

Hi everyone, so my name is Jono ... I grew up in the rainbow nation South Africa, with Welsh and English parents. My wife and I moved to the little spot of an island called Mauritius almost 2 years ago after having traveled extensively in Africa and Europe, as well as being based in Florida for a time.

Love music, songwriting, sports and have always been extremely inspired and influenced by history ... with all it's characters and plots. I wish I could read 10 times faster and stay up a whole lot later (without getting super grumpy after a few days) ... so I could read everything about History (that's good and well written of course :) )!!

I lean towards history that speaks about empires rising and falling (Mongol, Chin, Roman, British and probably ALL the others), violent and non-violent revolutions and 'righteous' rebellions, major wars and history shaping battles.

Having said that I am open to pretty much anything and am super excited to be a part of this group with all you wonderful people. Officially my first book club ever ... If it wasn't for my wife's awesome geekiness showing me I can actually do this type of thing online ... I would still be sharing my opinions with my attentive Labrador (don't get out much and Boxer aint got time for that)!

Reading the book of the month, The Underground Railroad right now, painful but brilliantly written.

Good to be with you all.

hi everyone.my name is GHAZAL and i'm from Iran.somehow i'm a book worm and i interested in historical books especially ancient Persia or about Cyrus the great.i'm so glad that found this group

What a nice introduction, Jono. We welcome you to The History Book Club. We have a variety of folders which may interest you. There are many topics for you to peruse and we have discussions on lots of different books. Hope you can join in.

I suggest you check out our homepage and see what we have to offer. You can access it through this link:

History Book Club main page

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by Colson Whitehead

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Vicki
Assisting Moderator – Ancient Roman History

Welcome to the group, Ghazal--we are glad you found us. We have discussions on all aspects of history so please feel free to join in.

Based on your post, you may find something to interest you in this topic:

Ancient history

I suggest you check out our homepage and see what else we have to offer. You can access it through this link:

History Book Club main page

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by Adrian Goldsworthy

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Vicki
Assisting Moderator – Ancient Roman History

Thank you for having me in the group. I am new to Goodreads.

I grew up on the East Coast of the US and have spent a lot of time living and traveling in Asia (Taiwan, China, and Japan). Now I live in Mobile, Alabama, where I teach history.

My youthful influences were C.V. Wedgwood and Francis Parkman, who tended toward the epic. Wedgwood's The Thirty Years War may be the best history I've ever read. In fact, it ruined my neck, for I read it with my chin on my chest and my nose in the book. I have also enjoyed Winston Churchill's books, which are epics, of course.

My favorite historian of China is Timothy Brook. The best book on Japan in my view is The World of the Shining Prince, which brings the classical Heian period to life.

As for what I've been reading recently, I tend to cycle through different genres and subjects, to keep things fresh. I've actually been reading mostly Hungarian and Czech novels, but I work in some history too. I just read A New Illustrated History of Taiwan, by Wan-yao Chou. I'll also be checking in with a Civil War history, Freedom National, by James Oaks (who I heard in a lecture). My favorite recent CW history is 1861: A Civil War Awakening, by Adam Goodheart; and I also got a lot out of What this Cruel War was Over, by Chandra Manning.

As a sub-category of CW history, I'm interested in Southern Unionism. Soon I will read Patriots and Rebels, by John C. Bush.

I'm also into historical fiction.

It's a pleasure meeting everybody. Thanks again.

Welcome Jono and Ghazal from all of us at the History Book Club. We are happy that you have joined us. Thanks to each of you for your very interesting introductions. You should find a lot of information pertaining to your varied interests in history. We look forward to your participation.

Lorna
Admin - Civil Rights and Supreme Court

Welcome Harry, thank you for your very interesting introduction. We are happy that you have joined us in the History Book Club. With your background and diverse interests in history, you may want to explore the following threads:

American Civil War
China

There are many other folders where you can discuss topics that may interest you as well. Here is a list of focus areas:

History Book Club's Focus Areas

Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you comment. (There is a link on the top right of the comment box). It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the Goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them.

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by Ivan Morris (no photo)
by Wan-yao Chou (no photo)
by James Oakes (no photo)
by Adam Goodheart (no photo)
by Chandra Manning (no photo)
by John C. Bush (no photo)

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Lorna
Admin - Civil Rights and Supreme Court

Lorna wrote: "Welcome Harry, thank you for your very interesting introduction. We are happy that you have joined us in the History Book Club. With your background and diverse interests in history, you may want t..."

Dear Lorna,

Thanks for the reply and for showing me the ropes. I appreciate it!

Also new to GoodReads and am a purely amateur history buff. I grew up and spent most of my life in New Hampshire and now live in central Florida with my wonderful wife and an assortment of horses, dogs, cats, rabbits and chickens.

I started my interest in history with The Civil War: A Narrative and more recently have read A History of the English Speaking Peoples, 4 Vols and The World Crisis, 1911-1918. Now reading The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 1-3: Volumes 1, 2, 3, as well as Armor and Blood: The Battle of Kursk: The Turning Point of World War II.

I'm looking forward to more recommendations and some interesting discussions. Thanks for having me in your group!

John wrote: "Also new to GoodReads and am a purely amateur history buff. I grew up and spent most of my life in New Hampshire and now live in central Florida with my wonderful wife and an assortment of horses, ..."

Hi, John. You really go in for the epics, especially the Churchill!

You might like Francis Parkman and C.V. Wedgwood. The latter's book on the Thirty Years War is a favorite of mine. The Thirty Years War

Thank you, Harry. I will check them both out - as soon as my plate is a little less full.

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Vicki wrote: "Welcome to our group, John! We have many different topics and books being discussed here so please feel free to explore and jump in.

I suggest you check out our homepage and see what we have to of..."

Thank you for the information, Vicki.