Wednesday, November 18, 2026 · 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Forbes Library — 20 West St., Northampton, MA
Due to Veteran's Day on the 2nd Wednesday, We will meet on the 3rd Wednesday, November 18 this month This month's discussion will cover... The Coolidge Museum at Forbes Library has started a new book group in 2024 to focus of reading women's history and social history. As her husband John met in Philadelphia to discuss forming a new nation, Abigail Adams wrote to implore him, 'I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.' Alas, it would be another 150 years before they even got the right to vote. But women were neither silent nor passive then or now. To elevate the voices of women in American history, a new book club is being offered by the The Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum. The inspiration for the club, Herstory: Women in American History, came from some members of the museum's Presidential Book Club, who expressed a desire to read more about the context of historical figures, and to hear from and about the women involved in the building of our nation. Selections in the book club will include biographies of women interspersed with texts on significant periods in American history. This way, book club…