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How close are we to ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment? The question hangs anew over Congress. And the courts. Erica Bens...
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At 23, while serving as the youngest school principal in the state, Alice Chenoweth was excoriated in Ohio’s newspapers in 1876 for having an affai...
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One hundred years ago this month, women won their fight for the right to vote – though not all of them. Black women, who had pleaded as passionatel...
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013
6:30pm
Author-educator Herbert Alan Johnson explains how a lawsuit over a steamboat monopoly ultimately led to Congress gaining the power to...
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Thursday, August 29, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
When police in Ohio raided Dollree Mapp’s home looking for evidence in a bombing, all they found were some “lascivious books.” Mapp appealed her porno...
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Homer Plessy—a man of seven-eighths Caucasian descent and one-eighth African descent who was nevertheless considered black under Louisiana law—boarded...
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Sunday, March 8, 2009
4:00pm
Recommended reading:
Books by Mark Twain...
Signature Event
Monday, February 23, 2009
6:30pm
The Twain and His Times event scheduled for this evening—Intersecting Genius: Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla—has been c...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
6:30pm
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A Not So Innoce...
Signature Event
Monday, February 9, 2009
6:30pm
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The Inner Side of La...