Tombs and Tomes Book Club July (Virtual)
Zoom DC, United StatesOn January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an [...]
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Tombs and Tomes Book Club September (Virtual)
Zoom DC, United StatesIn 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband’s death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the [...]
Tombs and Tomes Book Club November (Virtual)
Zoom DC, United StatesIn The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation. She conjures up early operating theaters--no place for the squeamish--and [...]
