The Dilligent by Robert Harms is the museum’s opening book selection in its new History Book Club, beginning Wednesday, January 27. Harms will feature a slide presentation and lead lively discussion about life aboard a slave trade ship.
Love a great story? Looking for good conversation? Like history? Then the Fairfield Museum’s History Book Club is for you. This new book club was created especially for those who are interested in the fascinating stories of history, with discussion led by local historians and scholars. Come hear professors from Yale, Fairfield University and Sacred Heart University provide their insights and take book club discussions to the next level.
The museum’s history book club is open to the public; you do not need to be a member of the museum to participate. The club, which meets at the museum on the fourth Wednesday of the month at 7pm, is an opportunity to connect and converse with other readers and history enthusiasts. The fee is $5 for museum members, $10 for non-members. Lively discussion and refreshments will be served.
The museum’s opening book selection is The Dilligent by Robert Harms, with the first club meeting set for Wednesday, January 27 at 7pm. The Dilligent brings the Atlantic slave trade’s daily ordinary evils vividly and gruesomely to life. Discussion and a slide presentation will be led by the book’s author, who is an award-winning scholar of African history and a member of Yale’s faculty.
The Fairfield Museum and History Center is located at 370 Beach Road in Fairfield, CT. Please pre-register for meetings by calling 203-259-1598. Books are available in a special display at Border’s Book Store and are copies are available at the front desk of Fairfield’s Main Library. Upcoming titles and meeting dates include, A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial by Suzanne Lebsock (discussion on Wednesday, February 24 with Paul Siff, Associate Professor of History at Sacred Heart University), Rogues’ Gallery by Michael Gross (discussion on Wednesday, March 24 with Dr. Philip Eliasoph, Professor of Art History at Fairfield University) and The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed (discussion on Wednesday, April 28 with Jennifer McLaughlin, Instructor of American-History and Director of Women’s Studies, Sacred Heart University.)
For more information about the Fairfield Museum’s History Book Club, please visit www.fairfieldhs.org or call 203-259-1598.
