All Library locations will be closed Wednesday, June 19, for Juneteenth.
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
There may be no more ardent disciple of literature today than John Freeman, founder of Freeman’s anthology of new writing and the...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 7, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book President McKinley: Architect of the American Century, acclaimed historian Robert Merry gives 2...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Award-winning writer, critic, and editor John Freeman joins Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell in a public conversation about Freeman’s...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...
Signature Event
Saturday, June 3, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Sidney Blumenthal, a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton and later an advisor to Hillary Clinton, continues to offer a fresh vie...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy was three years into his incendiary search for Communists when Dwight Eisenhower assumed the presidency in 1953. Ike...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 2, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Matt Gallagher has emerged in the past decade as one of literature’s most distinctive and perceptive voices on the Iraq War. As an Ar...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 7, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Thrust into the nation’s highest office following Richard Nixon’s resignation, Gerald R. Ford faced the impossible task of achieving much in little ti...
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
Thursday, November 21, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
If George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are the saints in America’s civil religion, then the 29th president, Warren G. Harding, is o...