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 An Eye for an Eye: Re-evaluating the Death Penalty Tuesday, February 21, 2017 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person The country continues to struggle with the issue of capital punishment and questions ranging from how fairly sentences are imposed and carried out... Read More
Signature Event Cents and Sensibility Wednesday, May 11, 2016 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Incentives of various types are widely offered to encourage and promote economic development – a point of competition and controversy in a years-lo... Read More
Signature Event Who Can Help Johnny Read? Wednesday, March 16, 2016 6:30pm Central Library In Person Educators and researchers have long recognized the importance of mastering reading by the end of third grade. Students falling short often falter in l... Read More
Signature Event A Streetcar Named … Wednesday, January 20, 2016 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person The Library, in partnership with American Public Square, launches a series of discussions of polarizing local issues – minus the i... Read More
Signature Event KCI Up in the Air Wednesday, December 2, 2015 6:30pm Central Library In Person The Library, in partnership with American Public Square, launches a series of discussions of polarizing local issues – minus the i... Read More
Signature Event Lady Bird Johnson Tuesday, November 10, 2015 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Lady Bird Johnson was no mere White House photo prop. The former Claudia Taylor once was described by husband Lyndon Johnson as “the brains a... Read More
Signature Event The Significance of the Frontier in Eisenhower History - Tim Rives Tuesday, October 13, 2015 6:30pm Central Library In Person 2015 commemorates not only the 125th anniversary of the birth of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, but also the U.S. Census Bureau’s declaration that... Read More