All Library locations will open late Tuesday, July 9 at 10:30 a.m. due to staff training.
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
6:30pm
Why do some children succeed and others fail? Answers don’t come from the ACT, SAT, or other measures of intelligence, Paul Tough say...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
6:30pm
According to an ancient Frankish ordinance, “He who claims that someone else is covered in dung shall be liable to pay 120 denari.” In Skamania County...
Signature Event
Monday, April 21, 2014
6:30pm
After months of contentious debate, the Missouri State Board of Education has finalized a plan to address the state’s unaccredited school districts. S...
Signature Event
Monday, April 7, 2014
6:30pm
Retired CIA officer turned political activist Ray McGovern examines whether 4th Amendment guarantees “against unreasonable searches a...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Tapped to be Franklin Roosevelt’s spymaster during World War II, William Joseph “Wild Bill” Donovan became a mythic figure in the his...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 20, 2014
6:30pm
For nearly a half-century, Eric Mann has worked on anti-war, labor, and environmental causes. He looks at how race, labor, and immigr...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 16, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Barry’s 1939 comedy—about a ditzy socialite whose wedding plans are complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband and a newspaper...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Some countries are so good at educating children that virtually all their youngsters can make complex arguments and solve complex problems. In othe...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
6:30pm
Due to a quirk in the calendar in the year 1849, one school of thought contends that Missourian David Rice Atchison deserves to be co...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 27, 2014
6:30pm
To kick off this year’s McKinzie symposium—One Nation Under God: The Politics of America’s Religious Diversity—the University of Wisconsin...