We have found at the Catholic Book Club that different genres and authors inspire different readers and broad variations in discussion, another reason to mix it up a bit in terms of genres and styles. Our two most recent selections have been no exception.

Until the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the 1995 bombing was the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of the United States. It remains the deadliest incident of domestic terrorism in the country's history.

A conversation with historian Winston Black on plague, medicine and religion in the Middle Ages

Throughout the United States, thousands of women religious took on nursing duties in hospitals or clinics and went into private homes to offer food, medicine, comfort and even housecleaning to families affected by the Spanish flu.

Catholic chaplains fighting a different battle in World War I: the fight against Spanish influenza

Walter Scheidel argues in "Escape From Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity," that out of the Roman Empire’s ashes rose modernity.