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The format of this event has been changed to virtual only. Watch online at yout...

The Library wraps up this year’s Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series with a final screening and discussion of a film adapted f...

A 17-year-old African American is found hanging from a swing set in the middle of an all-white trailer park in North Carolina. Police quickly de...

The Library continues this year’s Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series – featuring films adapted from books – with the 2017 dra...

The month’s second Searching the Psyche Through Cinema installment features Francis Ford Coppola’s classic look at life on the...

Fifty years ago, Chicago’s Black Panther Party formed an unlikely alliance in one of the most segregated cities in America. Intent on addressing po...

Facing overwhelming obstacles, Jews and others in occupied Europe resisted Nazi rule in a variety of ways during World War II. Some instigated u...

Sigmund Freud, the celebrated father of psychoanalysis, often referenced literature and theater in his analytic theory. The annual Searc...

An heiress who preferred big-game hunting to debutante balls, Gertrude “Gertie” Legendre was interesting enough to be an inspiration for a 1928 Broadw...

Author and activist Helen LaKelly Hunt recalls the event that launched the women’s rights movement in our country – the first Anti-Sl...