The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Monday, March 14, 2016
6:30pm
For two years, Harvard University social sciences professor Matthew Desmond embedded himself in two poor neighborhoods in Milwaukee,...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 10, 2016
6:30pm
Cote Smith sets his debut novel in the prison town of Leavenworth, Kansas, drawing from his experiences growing up there....
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
6:30pm
Author Greg Weiner maintains that today’s politically polarized America badly misses Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the former presidential...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 14, 2016
1:00pm
In Person
Islamism – or political Islam, the movement to infuse Islam in all areas of life – is hardly a 21st century phenomenon. Winston S. Churchill was a...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 11, 2016
6:30pm
Abraham Lincoln and William Shakespeare rose to prominence centuries and continents apart. But one of America’s greatest presidents felt a real connec...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
6:30pm
While perceived as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence existed everywhere in the decades following the Civil War – including Kansas and the...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Rightly or wrongly—and author Robert E. Litan insists it’s wrongly—the public’s esteem for economists plunged in the w...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Few literary works are more quoted, translated, and adapted than Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This year marks the sesqui...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 11, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Revolutions historically have come in waves, and the world appears to be riding one now – from the Arab Spring to anti-austerity protests in Greece to...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 16, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Sifting through the stacks of her local library in Hamburg, Germany, Jennifer Teege happened upon a book that first fascinated and th...