A Non-Profit 501(c)3 - Inc. 1995
Events
WANT TO HELP PRESERVE ROSEMOUNT'S HISTORY?
Due to Covid -19 our meetings are canceled until further notice!!
You are welcome to join us at the Rosemount Community Center at 7 p.m. the first Wednesday of the month (except July & December) for our monthly meetings.
Contact us:
or call Maureen at (651) 423-4603
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The Rosemount Area Historical Society
in partnership with the Robert Trail Library
brings you the
HISTORY BOOK CLUB
Due to Covid-19 our Book Club Meetings will be done on Zoom
Contact to be added to meeting
We meet at the Robert Trail Library
14395 So. Robert Trail, Rosemount MN
at
6:30
on
the second Tuesday of each month
(ALL ARE WELCOMED)
2020
Jan. 14:"The Shortest History of Germany: From Julius Caesar to Angel Merkel-
A Retelling of Our Times" by James Hawes
Feb. 11:"American Dialogue: The Founders and Us" by Joseph J. Ellis
Mar. 10:"Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder & Memory in Northern Ireland"
by Patrick Radden Keefe
Apr. 14:"Midnight In Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest
Nuclear Disaster" by Adam Higginbotham
May 12:"The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment"
by Thom Hartmann
Jun. 9:"The Woman Who Smashed Codes: True Story of Love, Spies, and the
Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies" by Jason Fagone
Jul. 14:"Grant" by Ron Chernow
Aug. 11:"Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of
the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian" by S.C. Gwynne
Sep. 8:"American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of
North America" by Colin Woodard
Oct. 13:"The Women's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote: by Elaine Weiss
Nov. 10:"A Women of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy
Who Helped Win World War II" by Sonia Purnell
Dec. 8:"The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the
American Ideal West by David McCullough
2021
Jan. 12:“Leadership in Turbulent Times”, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Feb. 9“The Arsenal of Democracy”, by Albert J. Baime
Mar. 9“4 Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the
Transcontinental Railroad", by Gordon Chang
Apr. 13“The Splendid and the Vile”, by Erik Larson
May. 11“Pale Rider - The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World”,
by Laura Spinney
Jun. 8“The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married into the
British Aristocracy", by Anne De Courcy
Jul. 13“India: A History”, by John Keay
Aug. 10“The Island of the Center of the World”, by Russell Shorto
Sept. 14“All Standing”, by Kathryn Miles
Oct. 12“The Lost City of the Monkey God”, by Douglas Preston
Nov. 9“Profiles in Folly: History’s Worst Decisions and Why They Went Wrong”
by Alan Axelrod
Dec. 14“Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents”, by Isabel Wilkerson
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Are you doing research on someone in Rosemount or an event that took place here? Rosemount Area Historical Society may be able to help!
We have copies of the Dakota County Tribune starting in 1886 - currently through 1952, on a searchable data base.
Contact us:
or John Loch: (952) 255-8545