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[Bryan]

Welcome, Mike and glad to hear the word of mouth is spreading.

What is your research interest?

[Mike]

Thanks, Bryan. My research focuses on the French peace movment through the early part of the Third Republic (1870 through WWI), although my next intended project will be on the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1911-1940 (or so). The CEIP had a European branch based in Paris, so it was a transnational rather than simply an American foundation. Like a lot of history scholars these days, my interests are spilling over national or even regional boundaries to be more transnational.

[Bryan]

Mike wrote: "Thanks, Bryan. My research focuses on the French peace movment through the early part of the Third Republic (1870 through WWI), although my next intended project will be on the Carnegie Endowment f..."

Awesome, Mike, thanks for sharing. It sounds similar to the international movement of the League of Nations. I look forward to your posts and recommendations!

[Raffi]

Hello everyone,

I am a recent graduate from Massage school in Seattle Washington, with a drive to gain knowledge of all sorts. I'm looking to expand my reading list to include new interests and new foci.

I look forward to the new connections that each new book may bring.

Like Jane, I'm new to goodreads.com, just having joined today.

~Raffi

['Aussie Rick']

Hi Raffi, nice to see you join the group, I am sure you'll have a fun time here with everyone else in the History Book Club. Please have a look at message 2061 above as it outlines some requirements of the group, enjoy and have fun :)

[Josh]

Just joined. My name is Josh. I'm 29 and have been reading my entire life, primarily non-fiction. I read about 40 books a year. My favorite topic is military history, especially the American Civil War and World War II. I'm currently reading some books on the Cold War.

I live in SE Florida. Currently working for a direct mail company but worked at a public library for 6 1/2 years. I'm going back to college full-time this fall to get degrees in history and either political science or geography, with the goal of getting some kind of history-related career.

[Alisa]

Welcome to Mike, Raffi, and Josh! We are thrilled to have you all and look forward to your participation. Message 2061 above from Aussie Rick contains links to our guidleines which will be handy as you post and navigate the site. Easy once you get into the swing of things but let us know if you have any questions beyond that. Raffi, I live in Seattle too! Hope you all enjoy the club.

[Bryan]

Welcome Raffi and Josh!

[Laura]

Welcome to Mike, Raffi & Josh! Glad you found us!

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Hello Raffi, hope you get involved in some of our discussions and find some threads of interest to you.

Josh, sounds like you have a wonderful plan. I think you will like the type of books we are reading in this group. And we hope that you will participate in our discussions.

Bentley

['Aussie Rick']

Hi Josh,

Welcome to the group, I look forward with chatting to you more about some of your favourite military history books, a subject close to my heart :)

[Faith]

Hi Everyone!

I'm an amateur historian...meaning no degrees, but tons of research and reading in my favorite periods...primarily Late Roman Antiquity. I blog about "History in the News", write book reviews about historical non-fiction and fiction, do "reel vs. real" analysis of T.V. and movie historical fiction. I live in a historic landmarked home "The Suffragette House" in Brooklyn, NY with my husband, daughter and several cats. (Trying to type now, one-handed with a cat on my lap!) I'm new to GR and looking forward to "meeting" you all in the threads!

['Aussie Rick']

Hi Faith, nice to see you join the group, I am sure you'll have a fun time here with everyone else in the History Book Club. I also love reading about the Romans and that period of history so look forward to chatting with you more about some good books.
Please have a look at message 2061 above as it outlines some requirements of the group, enjoy and have fun :)

[Alisa]

Hello Faith! ~ Gald you found GR and our not-so-little club. There are many topics and books being discussed covering a wide range of historical periods at any given time so please join in. Glad you are with us, hope you enjoy it.

[Bryan]

Hi Faith and welcome to the group.

[[deleted user]]

Hello everyone,

My name is Mitch, I am a recent graduate of the University of North Texas with a bachelor's degree in Emergency Administration and Planning with a focus on National/Homeland Security issues.

One of my goals this year is to read more non-fiction, history being my preferred topic. I mostly enjoy aviation and WWII works, but I also dabble in US presidents from time to time.

So far this seems like a well thought-out and managed group, glad I found you!

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Hello Faith and welcome to the group. It sounds like you live in a very interesting home. If the walls could talk.

Mitchel welcome...we do our best and thank you for the kind words. If your goal is to read more non fiction then you have come to the right spot.

[Bryan]

Welcome Mitch. We have a lot to offer, so I hope you find the group an enjoyable experience.

[Alisa]

Hi Mitch, welcome. With your interest I am sure you will find a plethora of recommendations, books, and topics of interest. There is a lot here, and we invite your participation so don't be shy! Glad to have you in the group.

[Laura]

Welcome Faith and Mitch!

['Aussie Rick']

Hi Mitch, welcome to the group, I hope you enjoy yourself here and I look forward to discussing some good aviation and WW2 history books with you soon.

[Bill]

Entirely my fault, Bentley. My apologies. New to GoodReads and was just looking to connect with readers who enjoy history. Totally missed the pop-up box. Will look for other groups. - bill

[Bill]

Thanks Bentley. As a history buff (what journalist is not?) I will most definitely join in the chatter. My own passion leans toward World War II history - and, after my recent work, the history of faith and religions. I look forward to jumping into this group as a fan first. Again, I appreciate the warm welcome.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

You are welcome Bill. We also have a folder on the world religions as well as one on the Second World War.

We look forward to reading your posts.

Bentley

[Alisa]

Welcome Bill. We hope that you are comfortable with the club's organization sufficient to stick around and participate. It is a robust club with interests and members that span the globe. Hope you enjoy your time here.

[Bryan]

Welcome Bill, glad you found us.

[Bill]

I am as well, Bryan.
And thanks for the welcome, Alisa.

['Aussie Rick']

Hi Bill, welcome to the group, I'll look forward to your contributions and remarks in regards to your favourite books covering the Second World War and other topics.

[Tom]

Hi,

I obtained my undergraduate degree in History from Grand Valley College in Michigan and my graduate degrees from Wayne State University, also in Michigan. Before moving to Maryland, I taught American History courses at several South East Michigan institutions.

I am also currently employed as a full-time librarian at a local county library system.

When not at work, my wife and I participate in local Colonial/American Revolution War events as reanactors in Maryland and Virginia.

When not working or reenacting I can be found riding on one of my two bicycles, playing with our 2 cats and reading books, mainly American History (of course), mystery and fantasy.

Tom

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Hi Tom,

Welcome to the History Book Club. It sounds like you have a wonderful background for this group and we look forward to your posts.

Bentley

['Aussie Rick']

Hi Tom, another warm welcome to the group, I'm sure you'll have a great time here discussing your favourite books and periods of history.

[Bryan]

Hi Tom and welcome to the group.

[Alisa]

Tom, welcome to the group we are glad you found us. With your interests I am confident you will find many topics and books to discuss with other members. We look forward to your posts.

[Katy]

Hi I'm new here. Love to read Historical Fiction and Histories.
Also love fantasy.
I teach mathematics (Statistics and Algebra) at a local high school here in Idaho.

[Alisa]

Hi Kathy, welcome! We have both fiction and non-fiction regularly being discussed so am sure you will find all sorts of books and topics of interest to you. If you have not already done so, you might check out our guidelines to help you navigate the site and cite books. (You can find them under the History Book Club header). If you have any questions feel free to ask any of the moderators. We are glad you are with us.

[Andrea]

Hi, everybody. My name is Andrea, I'm Italian and I'm very very interested in Modern History. During my life (I'm 48) I read a lot of books about Italian history, from the process of Unification to nowdays. For those interested on the subject (and able to understand Italian) I suggest the "Storia d'Italia dall'Unità ai nostri giorni" written by the great Sergio Romano. Brief to the point and very very well written.
But - and that's the reason why I'm here - I am very interested in History of the United States too. I have read a lot on the subject:
- A History of the American People (Paul Jhonson)
- The Penguin History of the USA (Hogh Brogan)
- America the last best hope (William J. Bennet)
- Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power (John Steele Gordon)
And some more about more specific historic episodes of USA History (roaring twenties, 50's, from 60s to 70's).
On my bookshelves there is as well People history of United States (Howard Zinn) that looks like a "must"; I've never found a bookstore across USA without a copy of this book. But I do not manage to read it as I feel it too left oriented.
For opposite reason I didn't like Paul Jhonson: too conservative; besides I noticed that in his book there is no word (and when I say no it means NO at all) about the Italians who made USA. I mean USA is a melting pot and every people gave a contribution. Besides I am often very over critic towards my fellow citizen, but this way to ignore Italians hurt me.
Patriot History of United States will probably be my next USA History book (Larry Schweikart) even though title and reviews state this book as definetly conservative.
Actually what I'm looking is something like The Penguin History of USA, the book I like the most.Very very balanced, even when it talks about the most recent events.
In a way I am quite puzzled about the little number of books about history of USA; I am not looking for some "best seller" but for something authoritative... I mean in Italy we have tons and tons of great book about history of my contry, and I'm not talking about our whole history, but just the last two centuries. I could provide you with some other titles if you are interested.
By the way, can someone suggest me some good reading about the subject?
Thank you everybody

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Hello Andrea - a big welcome to you. You have given us a lot of information in the welcome section. There are many threads where you can discuss all of the books above and your reviews of them and also how you feel about the author's point of view.

Here is a thread where you might want to start. This is a thread titled what is everybody reading now:

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

This thread belongs to a folder called Me and My Books and there may be other threads where you might like to post your interests.

But please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you are ready to cite a book. (There is a link on the top right of the reply 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.

More information:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

Take a few moments to read our policies:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask us moderators. I look forward to your postings.

For the books and authors that you cited; always remember that when you cite a book and/or an author; that we do have rules for citations here; so the books that you cited should look like the following:

How Your Book Citations Should Look:

Sergio Romano
Note: I did not find the book in Italian that you posted by this author; there are many other books that have been cited by others in goodreads by him but not the one you cited. You may want to notify goodreads and possibly they can add this book for you. However, in the case of this book I did cite, the bookcover was available, the author's photo was not, but then I was able to add the author's link which is the author's name in linkable text.

Paul Johnson

The Johnson book had all three elements available and shows above how the citation should look. I am sorry that Johnson disappointed you when he did not include some of the stories of the Italian immigrants who came to America; sometimes authors in their books are not able to include everything they would like.

Hugh Brogan

With the Brogan book, only the book cover and the author's link were available. I noticed you liked Brogan's approach and style.

William J. Bennett

Here with the Bennett book; we had all three elements available which are our guidelines for citations.

John Steele Gordon

With the Gordon book above, the author's photo was not available but the bookcover and the author's link were. This shows you how this book needs to be cited when mentioning it.

Howard Zinn

The above shows you how the Zinn book and author should be cited according to our guidelines. I think if you gave Zinn a chance; you might like his book and it is always beneficial to read folks who have differing opinions and points of view so that you can make up your mind for yourself and maybe learn a little about why they feel the way they do. I think sometimes it helps our understanding polarizing viewpoints or ones that we feel are polarizing.

Larry Schweikart

I hope you enjoy Schweikart's book when you read it. But remember when discussing it on any thread here to cite it like we did above.

If you are looking for books, we do have a thread where you can get some assistance. It is called I am Looking for a Book On...:

Here is the link:

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

If you would like to discuss books that you have recently acquired. Here is the link:

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/4...

We have some folders which discuss various aspects of American History and the Presidents which you may be interested in:

Here are the links for those folders:

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_...

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_...

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_...

There is a lot here so I hope the above links help you get started. This thread is only for introductions and welcomes so discussions of the books themselves should take place on one of the subject matter threads.

We have members from around the world so I know that you will find friends here and folks who like to discuss good books of history.

Hello Kathy from Idaho. I hope the above links and guidelines that I provided for Andrea will help you as well. We are glad to also have you with us. I almost missed your introduction so I wanted to add a belated welcome. If you need any assistance, do not hesitate to reach out to one of the moderators.

Enjoy and welcome,

Bentley

[Bryan]

Welcome Kathy and Andrea. I do hope you find the group interesting.

[Andrea]

Bentley wrote: "Hello Andrea - a big welcome to you. You have given us a lot of information in the welcome section. There are many threads where you can discuss all of the books above and your reviews of them ..."

Thank you very much for your reply. I have a lot of stuff to study and consider.... Probably there has been too much haste on my side. I should have read those links BEFORE writing my introduction. I apologize.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

No apologies necessary Andrea; I hope the links help you and we are glad to have you with us. And just jump right in and post because that is the way you get acclimated and by using the guidelines they become second nature to you and take no time at all.

Bentley

[Alisa]

Hello Andrea, welcome. There is a lot to explore on this site and I hope you find books and topics of interest to discuss. Looks like Bentley got you off to a good start providing helpful links, info, and examples. Glad to have you with us.

[Faith]

Thanks for all the warm welcomes! I've been following the links and working out the quirks of the GR site.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Good for you Faith.

['Aussie Rick']

Welcome to the group Kathy and Andrea, look forward to chatting with you both about some good books :)

[Gerrie]

A great big welcome to all you newbies. Let's make this a readable new year.

[Garret]

Hello to Kristen, Rona, Jason. Glad to have you aboard and participating.

[Keith]

Hello my name is Keith. I am 41 years old, attending college to become an english teacher and, perhaps later on, a college professor. I love books, especially history books!! I'm so glad to have found this group here and am very happy to be a member!!!

[Bryan]

Welcome, Keith. Glad you could join us.

Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you are ready to cite a book. (There is a link on the top right of the reply 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.

More information:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...

Take a few moments to read our policies:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_...

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask us moderators. I look forward to your postings.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Thank you Bryan for giving new member Keith some helpful advice and links.

Welcome Keith, we are glad to have you join us. Good for you in terms of your immediate goals. And we are very enthusiastic to have you discover some of the great things going on. Find some threads that you are interested in and/or join one of our upcoming discussions.

[Garret]

Welcome aboard Keith!