Oct 10, 2014

Recent History of the History Book Club


Starting in February of 2013 I have been writing fairly long summaries of the discussions held by the History Book Club. Here are some statistics about the club since that time.

Month     Book                                          # Attending   # Page Views
                                                                   Meeting          of Summary
2/2013   The Plundering Time                         14                   27
3/2013   God's Englishman                              16                   40
4/2013   Manias, Panics and Crashes             18                   35
5/2013   The Conquerors                                 14                   20
6/2013   Henry Wallace Bio                            12                    21
7/2013   Life in Stalinist Russia                      16                    52
8/2013   Birth of Modern Politics                   15                    37
9/2013   Eleanor of Aquitaine                         12                    14
10/2013 Brazil on the Rise                              11                    24
11/2013 The Silk Road                                    11                    15
12/2013 US Founding Documents                  10                    49
1/2014   The Reformation                               11                   135
2/2014   Ancient Alexandria                           12                    55
3/2014   Practice and Uses of History             11                   49
4/2014  Longitude                                           12                    53
5/2014  Borderland: Ukrainian History          16                   89
6/2014  The War of 1812                                 12                   54
7/2014  This Republic of Suffering                  11                   70
8/2014  Natural History of the Palette             14                   61
9/2014  Poland: A History                               17                    41

The number of people attending the discussion meetings in person has varied from 10 to 18, with no obvious pattern. The number of downloads of the discussion summaries has increased, perhaps in part as the blog is getting more traffic (the total number of page views is now over 3.800). It seems that more people may be following the book club than are attending its meetings in person.











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