If you miss the insightful discussions of the classroom or just love to read, this is your chance to discover thought-provoking books and meet new people while learning from some of McGill’s favourite professors without tests, papers, or evaluations!

There is a registration fee of $15 per person for the semester which covers refreshments, room rentals, and other book club expenses. Book club members benefit from a 10% discount on all book club books at the University Bookstore.

Discussion with Leonard Moore

Leonard Moore has taught American history at McGill since 1991. His courses cover a wide range of topics including the Civil War and Reconstruction, citizenship and civil rights in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, social and political history from the 1920s to the present. His research interests have focused on the social foundations of the American right in the twentieth century. He is the author of Citizen Klansmen: The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, 1921-1927, which won the Outstanding Book Award by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States.

The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since.

Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de force of historical reportage. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, Egan does equal justice to the human characters who become his heroes, "the stoic, long-suffering men and women whose lives he opens up with urgency and respect" (New York Times).

Next Book:

November 26 - Bilingual discussion with Isabelle Arseneau."Perceval: The Story of the Grail " by Chrétien de Troyes. You are invited to read this novel in either the original French version or in the English translation. Lecture will be presented in French, with a smaller portion in English.