Signature Event Strictly Speaking: Equal Rights Should Have No Deadline Saturday, August 29, 2020 10:00am Online How close are we to ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment? The question hangs anew over Congress. And the courts. Erica Bens... Read More
Signature Event Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener Thursday, August 27, 2020 6:30pm Online At 23, while serving as the youngest school principal in the state, Alice Chenoweth was excoriated in Ohio’s newspapers in 1876 for having an affai... Read More
Signature Event Qualified Rights: Women’s Suffrage, Citizenship, and the 19th Amendment Reconsidered Tuesday, August 18, 2020 6:30pm Online One hundred years ago this month, women won their fight for the right to vote – though not all of them. Black women, who had pleaded as passionatel... Read More
Signature Event George H.W. Bush: Life to the Fullest Wednesday, June 26, 2019 6:30pm Central Library In Person As chief of staff to former President George H.W. Bush for 25 years, Jean Becker oversaw everything from the opening of his presid... Read More
Signature Event President McKinley: Architect of the American Century Thursday, December 7, 2017 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person In a discussion of his new book President McKinley: Architect of the American Century, acclaimed historian Robert Merry gives 2... Read More
Signature Event Lincoln: Wrestling with His Angel, 1849-1856 Saturday, June 3, 2017 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Sidney Blumenthal, a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton and later an advisor to Hillary Clinton, continues to offer a fresh... Read More
Signature Event Ike and McCarthy Wednesday, April 5, 2017 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy was three years into his incendiary search for Communists when Dwight Eisenhower assumed the presidency in 1953. Ike... Read More
Signature Event Electing Abraham Lincoln: The Revolution of 1860 Tuesday, September 13, 2016 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person This year’s election stakes are high, as always. But perhaps no presidential vote in U.S. history was more consequential than that of 1860.... Read More
Signature Event Franklin Delano Roosevelt Thursday, April 21, 2016 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person When The Washington Post asked 162 political science scholars earlier this year which American president should be added to Mount Rushmore... Read More
Signature Event The Audacious Ascetic: What the Bin Laden Tapes Reveal about Al-Qa’ida - Flagg Miller Wednesday, March 23, 2016 6:30pm Central Library In Person Among the things Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants left behind when they fled Kandahar after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was a cache... Read More