All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Thursday, July 31, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Celebrate what would have been the 102nd birthday of Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman as Mark Skousen relates stories from his long...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Progressive Henry Wallace ran for president in 1948 on a platform that advocated an end to the Cold War (he thought domestic fascism was more dangerou...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
For 15 years, aspiring novelist Walter Kirn was drawn into the fun-house world of Clark Rockefeller, a secretive young banker and art...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 24, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
America is a country built by thinkers on a foundation of ideas. Alongside classic works of philosophy and ethics, however, our presidents have bee...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Railroads were essential to moving men and military supplies during the Civil War. The Battle of Atlanta, fought on July 22, 1864, was an attempt by f...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Half a century after Barry Goldwater ran for president as the 1964 Republican candidate, the late five-term U.S. Senator from Arizona remains an icon...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Best-selling urban fiction author Victoria Christopher Murray discusses and reads from her novel about three friends whose stable liv...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 22, 2014
2:00pm
On October 21-23, 1864, a Confederate army led by General Sterling Price clashed with its Union counterpart commanded by General Samuel Curtis. The im...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) is among the most overlooked presidents in U.S. history even though his progressive values helped shape the course of th...
Signature Event
Monday, June 9, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
World War II veteran Dick Cole, 98, joins Park University professor Dennis Okerstrom for a discussion of the 1st Air...