Free Thought Discussion Group
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We are meeting online via Zoom and in person at the Sunnyvale, Mountain View, or Palo Alto Public Library as a Hybrid Zoom meeting. If you wish to join us, please sign up for the meeting, and the Zoom link will be available on the right panel. If you wish to attend in person, you can find out about the meeting place by sending an email to webmaster@humanists.org requesting the library meeting place.
New Book
We are currently reading "How the South Won the Civil War" by Heather Cox Richardson, March 12, 2020,
From Amazon: Named one of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction
While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral. The system that had sustained the defeated South moved westward and established a foothold there. It was a natural fit. Settlers from the East had for decades been pushing into the West, where the seizure of Mexican lands at the end of the Mexican-American War and the treatment of Native Americans cemented racial hierarchies. More..
6/17 - We are reading: Intro and Chapt. 1 (The Routes of Paradox), Pages 11 to 55, 44 pages
7/1 - Freethought Discussion Group - Bring a topic to discuss and talk about
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