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Central Library History Book Club

The Central Library History Book Club meets the fourth Thursday of the month, at 2:00 p.m. in the 4th floor Meeting Room.

Please call 651-266-7000, ext. 5 for more information.

Central Library book clubs - dates, times, and titles.

2010 Titles

The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America by Douglas Brinkley
Hiding in the Open by Sabina Zimering
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
American Passage: The History of Ellis Island by Vincent J. Cannato
Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869 by Stephen Ambrose
I Go To America: Swedish American Women and the Life of Mina Anderson by Joy K. Lintelman
The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
The Guthrie Theater: Images, History, and Inside Stories by Peg Guilfoyle

2009 Titles

Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
1776 by David McCullogh
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
The World is Flat : a Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
Minnesota on the Map: a Historical Atlas by David Lanegran
D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen Ambrose
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based On Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Ulrich
The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two by Studs Terkel
North Star Country by Meridel LeSueur
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food edited and illustrted by Mark Kurlansky