AUBURN – The Auburn Public Library invites readers to join Professor John Sutherland in exploring the people, events and ideas behind the American Revolution at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4, at the library’s Auburn Mall location. Sutherland will discuss “The Minutemen and Their World” by Robert A. Gross, the second book in the American Revolutionary Generation

“The Minutemen and Their World” was awarded the 1977 Bancroft Prize, an award given annually for the best in American history books that explore a facet of American identity.

Gross singles out colonial Concord, Mass., a town of around 265 families in 1775, to examine the lives and social complexities of townspeople during the 18th century against the backdrop of the outset of the American Revolution.

Other upcoming book discussions in the American Revolutionary Generation are Oct. 25, “Setting the World a Blaze” by John Ferling; Nov. 15, “Women of the Republic” by Linda Kerber; and Dec. 6, “Setting the World a Blaze” by John Ferling.

For more information or to reserve a copy of “The Minutemen and their World,” call 782-3191.

This is part of a Let’s Talk About It book discussion series, funded by the Maine Humanities Council in partnership with the Maine State Library.