Virtual Discussion | History Book Club “Craft: An American History”

History Book Club

Look to the MFAH for good books and great conversations! The History Book Club presents free discussions about literature and art, and you’re invited. These talks focus on books about life in Europe and America during the 18th and 19th centuries, inspired by the collections of the two MFAH house museums: Bayou Bend and Rienzi.

The book selection for November is Craft: An American History by Glenn Adamson. Publishers Weekly states this book “Historian Shawcross’s impressive debut recounts a significant yet overlooked chapter in the 19th-century struggle over “who would govern the Americas, and how they would be governed.”

Live via Zoom
Wednesday, November 10, 2021

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Questions? 713.639.7800 or 713.639.7759 / rienzi@mfah.org or bayoubend@mfah.org  


Education programs at Rienzi receive generous funding from the Sterling-Turner Foundation; Alkek and Williams Foundation; Carroll Sterling and Harris Masterson III Endowment; and the Caroline Wiess Law Endowment for Rienzi.

Education programs at Bayou Bend receive generous funding from Sharon G. Dies; Susan Vaughan Foundation; Houston Junior Woman’s Club; Mary Lynn and Steve Marks; Bobbie Nau; William A. and Madeline Smith Charitable Trust; and additional generous donors.

The education programs also receive endowment income from funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Ballard; Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Tate; and the James William Glanville and Nancy Hart Glanville Endowment.