Great Books Reading List for 2011-2012
September 8, 2011
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
October 13, 2011
discussion cancelled
November 10, 2011
Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
December 8, 2011
Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776)
January 12, 2012
(meeting cancelled)
February 9, 2012
The Federalist Papers: No. 10
James Madison (1787-1788)
March 8, 2012
The Federalist Papers: No. 51
Alexander Hamilton or James Madison (1787-1788)
April 12, 2012
The Federalist Papers: No. 78
Alexander Hamilton (1787-1788)
May 10, 2012
Constitution of the United States of America
(1787–written; 1788–ratified)
June 14, 2012
Farewell Address
George Washington (September 19, 1796)
July 12, 2012
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Falls Convention
(July 19-20, 1848)
August 9, 2012
Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln (November 19, 1863)
September 13, 2012
Second Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln (March 4, 1865)
October 11, 2012
Address to the First Annual Meeting of the America Equal Rights Association
Sojourner Truth (May 9, 1867)
November 8, 2012
The United States v. Susan B. Anthony
(June 17-18, 1873)
December 2012
Let America Be America
Langston Hughes (1938)
January 2013
Letter from Birmingham jail
Martin Luther King, Jr. (April 16, 1963)
