The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Thursday, November 14, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Some 38 million people, nearly one in eight, live in poverty in today’s America as liberals and conservatives spar over solutions. Researcher and w...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 7, 2019
6:30pm
Amid today’s tensions over a proper understanding of separation of church and state, University of Missouri law professor Carl Esbeck...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Land conversation and climate change expert James Levitt examines the challenges of protecting today’s large areas of natural land, i...
Signature Event
Friday, September 27, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Frido Mann’s reverence for democracy draws from family history. The psychologist and author grew up in southern California, where his...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 12, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Television and Donald Trump grew up together, a synergistic happenstance that carried an attention-hogging, reality TV-imbued, Twitter- and Fox New...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 20, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Barry Strauss stands as one of today’s foremost classicists, his exhaustively researched and accessibly written books opening window...
Signature Event
Monday, June 10, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
In her new book Scenes from the Heartland: Stories Based on Lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton, award-winning novelist, short story writer, and poet Do...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 16, 2019
6:30pm
Valiant knights. Chaste virgins. Bawdy widows. Our notions of gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages tend to come from Hollywood and the History Chan...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 9, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
We’re well acquainted with Abraham Lincoln the country lawyer, the principled statesman, the revered martyr. In a discussion of his new historical nov...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 11, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
The roots of today’s political fractiousness lie, in part, in a four-day gathering in Houston more than 40 years ago. The National Women’s Conference...