December Book Club Selection:
Pale Rider by Laura Spinney
Date: December 30, 2021
Time: 7:00 pm
In 1918, the Italian Americans of New York, the Yupik of Alaska, and the Persians of Mashed had almost nothing in common except for a virus — one that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times and had a decisive effect on twentieth-century history. The Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth — from the poorest immigrants of New York City to the king of Spain, Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi, and Woodrow Wilson. But despite a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people, it exists in our memory as an afterthought to World War I.
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November Book Club Selection:
All Stirred Up: Suffrage Cookbooks, Food, and the Battle for Women’s Right to Vote by Laura Kumin.
Date: November 18th
Time: 7:00 pm
Online Location: TBA
We all likely conjure up a similar image of the women’s suffrage movement: picket signs, red carnations, militant marches through the streets. But was it only these rallies that gained women the exposure and power that led them to the vote? Ever courageous and creative, suffragists also carried their radical message into America’s homes wrapped in food wisdom, through cookbooks, which ingenuously packaged political strategy into already existent social communities. These cookbooks gave suffragists a chance to reach out to women on their own terms, in nonthreatening and accessible ways. Cooking together, feeding people, and using social situations to put people at ease were pioneering grassroots tactics that leveraged the domestic knowledge these women already had, feeding spoonsful of suffrage to communities through unexpected and unassuming channels.
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October Book Club Selection:
Dear Mad’m by Stella Walthal Patterson
Date: October 28, 2021
Time: 7:00 pm
Spend a delightful evening enthralled by the true and captivating experiences of this city lady who at age 80 spent one full year on her mountain mining claim and faced the challenges of a vastly different life.
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September Book Club Selection:
Why They Marched: The Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote by Susan Ware
Date: September 30, 2021
Time: 7:00 pm
A fresh take on the traditional narrative that begins with Seneca Falls and ends with the victory in 1920, the author illustrates the geographic, racial, religious, and socioeconomic range of the suffrage movement with profiles of 19 equally audacious, talented women, who joined the fight. September’s Book Club selection can be purchased from:
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August Book Club Selection:
Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century by Barbara Ransby
Date: August 26, 2021
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Via Zoom
In Making All Black Lives Matter, award-winning historian Barbara Ransby outlines the scope and genealogy of this movement, documenting its roots in Black feminist politics and situating it squarely in a Black radical tradition, one that is anti-capitalist, internationalist, and focused on some of the most marginalized members of the Black community. From the perspective of a participant-observer, Ransby maps the movement, profiles many of its lesser-known leaders, measures its impact, outlines its challenges, and looks toward its future. August’s Book Club selection can be purchased from:https://smile.amazon.com/Making-All-Black-Lives-Matter/dp/0520292715/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1X9FWL3C0OQZ3&dchild=1&keywords=making+all+black+lives+matter+by+barbara+ransby&qid=1628104902&sprefix=making+all+black+lives%2Caps%2C248&sr=8-2
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July Book Club Selection:
Boomtowns of Shasta Dam: A History of Central Valley, Project City, Summit City, Toyon and Shasta Dam Village, 1937-1993 by Al M. Rocha
Date: July 29, 2021
Time: 7:00 pm
The embodiment of a tremendous amount of original research work, this book is a comprehensive source of information regarding the Shasta Dam communities and a major contribution to our accumulated local knowledge in answering the question of how the Shasta boomtowns were created. July’s book club selection can be purchased from: https://checkout.square.site/merchant/1B735G08BMHW3/checkout/V3VZ4LEGBL5LYRHW3CXHKREF
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June Book Club Selection:
Wherever There’s a Fight, 10th Anniversary Edition: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties In California by Elaine Elinson & Stan Yogi
Date: Thursday, June 24, 2021
Time: 7:00 pm
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The story of how freedom and equality have grown in California, from the gold rush right up to the precarious post-9/11 era, and it shows how these pushes for progress have reverberated far beyond the Golden State. June’s book club selection can be purchased from: https://smile.amazon.com/Wherever-Theres-Fight-10th-Anniversary/dp/1597144916/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=wherever+theres+a+fight+10th&qid=1613688284&sr=8-1
May Book Club Selection:
A History of Photography in 50 Cameras (Fifty Things
That Changed the Course of History) by Michael Pritchard
Date: Thursday, May 27, 2021
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An exploration of the 180-year story of perhaps the most widely used device ever built. It covers cameras in all forms, revealing the origins and development of each model and tracing the stories of the photographers who used and popularized them. Illustrated throughout with studio shots of all fifty cameras and a selection of iconic photographs made using them. May’s book club selection can be purchased from:
April Book Club Selection:
An Aristocracy of Color: Race and Reconstruction in California and the West by D. Michael Bottoms
Date: Thursday, April 29, 2021
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Meeting ID: 860 4214 5382 & Passcode: 299298
In the South after the Civil War, the reassertion of white supremacy tended to pit white against black. In the West, by contrast, a radically different drama emerged, particularly in multiracial, multiethnic California. Nonwhite Californians—blacks and Chinese in particular—recognized an
unprecedented opportunity to reshape the state’s race relations. Drawing on court records, political debates, and eyewitness accounts, the author brings to life the monumental battle that followed.
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March Book Club Selection:
Gold Rush Stories: 49 Tales of Seekers, Scoundrels, Loss, and Luck by Gary Noy
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2021
Time: 7:00 pm
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In less than ten years, more than 300,000 people made the journey to California, some from as far away as Chile and China. This book explores the deeply human stories of the California Gold Rush generation, drawing out all the brutality, tragedy, humor, and prosperity as lived by those who experienced it. The book club meets for discussion on the last Thursday of each month. March’s book club
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February Book Club Selection:
Redding The First Hundred Years by Edward Petersen.
Date: February 25th, 2021
Time: 7:00 pm
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This book is a cursory overview of the history of Redding’s first 100 years. The book can be purchased from the Society online Store from the link below
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January Book Club Selection:
Highway 99: The History of California’s Main Street
by Stephen H. Provost
Date: January 28, 2021
Time: 7:00 pm
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The History of California’s Main Street turns back the clock to those days when a narrow ribbon of
asphalt tied communities together, including downtown Redding. The book is available from https://smile.amazon.com/ ISBN: 9781610352963.
