{"id":887,"date":"2012-04-21T04:13:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T04:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?page_id=887"},"modified":"2026-07-09T16:24:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:24:36","slug":"free-thought-discussion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/free-thought-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Thought Discussion – Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are holding our meeting online via Zoom and in person at either the Sunnyvale, Mountain View or Palo Alto  Public Library. If you wish to join us, please sign up at https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/307349792\/edit\/?fromSeries=true,<\/a> and the link to the meeting will be available to you. If you wish to join us in person, send an email to webmaster@humanists.org <\/strong>requesting the meeting place.
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New Book:<\/strong> <\/span>:<\/p>\n

We are currently reading “How the South Won the Civil War” by Heather Cox Richardson, March 12, 2020,<\/p>\n

From Amazon:<\/strong> 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 there established a foothold. 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..<\/p>\n