ON June 2, in view of recent headlines regarding Blackwater, we will be discussing the controversial issue of mercenary Armies and the Iraq War described in Jeremy Scahill’s bestseller. Backwater

We will be discussing the impact of the invention of the telegraph during the Victorian era and its historically significant parallels with today’s internet

Our book for April is a fast pace best selling account of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 By an editor of Vanity Fair.

we will discuss “the presidency of George Washington” one of the most popular books authored by presidential expert, Forrest McDonald.

In February we leave the Far East and 20th century for the 17th century Dutch Golden Age, the Dutch empire and it’s North American Colony secreted between Boston and Virginia.

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In November we will be covering Pre-republican china to read a drastically new interpretation of China’s last Empress who ruled china behind the scenes (the only way a woman could) from 1861 her death in 1908.

Our October book also deals with Middle Eastern History and brings us forward 300 years from the year 687 to 1187, to the Third Crusade.