The North-East branch will be closed Monday, July 22 for staff training.
Signature Event
Thursday, July 18, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Military historian Terry Beckenbaugh examines the failed 1863 attack on the Confederacy’s Fort Wagner on Charleston Harbor – an in...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 14, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
In the 1950s and ‘60s, Kansas City was a heavily segregated town. African-Americans were limited even in which city facilities they could use. For ins...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
The loss of America was an unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and politica...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
6:30pm
As the oldest and favorite daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph was well educated, known on two continents...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 24, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Historian Ethan S. Rafuse examines a tumultuous year in the history of the Army of the Potomac, when Gen. “Fighting” Joe Hooker took...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 20, 2013
2:00pm
Biographer Robert Farnsworth discusses his new eBook about the life, death, and legacy of Leon Jordan, a one-time po...
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Was he an anti-Semite and a Nazi sympathizer? An appeaser and isolationist?
For all his public activities – financier, film producer, kingmak...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 2, 2012
2:00pm
Architectural historian Keith Eggener looks at the heritage of architect Louis Curtiss (1865-1924), often described...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
A specialist in the Atomic Age, Michael Scheibach examines how Americans in the 1940s, ‘50s, and ‘60s dealt with the threat of nuclea...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
6:30pm
Author Robert W. Merry wraps up the presidential election – and the Hail to the Chiefs series – with a fresh, playful, and challengin...