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 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 Edith Kermit Roosevelt Wednesday, April 22, 2015 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Aristocratic and sophisticated, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, the wife of Theodore Roosevelt, ran the White House with a sure hand and figured prominentl... Read More
Signature Event Gibbons v. Ogden Tuesday, October 15, 2013 6:30pm Central Library In Person Author-educator Herbert Alan Johnson explains how a lawsuit over a steamboat monopoly ultimately led to Congress gaining the power to... Read More
Signature Event Roe v. Wade: The Abortion Rights Controversy in American History Thursday, September 19, 2013 6:30pm Central Library In Person Few Supreme Court decisions have stirred up as much controversy, vitriolic debate, and even violence as 1973’s Roe v. Wade, which affirmed a woman’... Read More
Signature Event Mapp v. Ohio Thursday, August 29, 2013 6:30pm Central Library In Person When police in Ohio raided Dollree Mapp’s home looking for evidence in a bombing, all they found were some “lascivious books.” Mapp appealed her porno... Read More
Signature Event Plessy v. Ferguson: Williamjames Hull Hoffer Tuesday, July 23, 2013 6:30pm Central Library In Person Homer Plessy—a man of seven-eighths Caucasian descent and one-eighth African descent who was nevertheless considered black under Louisiana law—boar... Read More
Signature Event Dred Scott and the Politics of Slavery Wednesday, June 26, 2013 6:30pm Central Library In Person The slave Dred Scott claimed that his residence in a free state transformed him into a free man. When the Court decided otherwise,... Read More