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 A Conversation with John Freeman Tuesday, November 19, 2019 6:30pm Central Library 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... Read More
Signature Event A Conversation With Tom Barbash Tuesday, April 16, 2019 6:30pm Central Library In Person With an award-winning novel, best-selling collection of short stories, and a nonfiction best-seller (On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howar... Read More
Signature Event On Writing, on Race Wednesday, February 20, 2019 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Two distinctive writers and educators join local novelist Whitney Terrell in a discussion of their craft and our nation’s fraught... Read More
Signature Event Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World Thursday, January 10, 2019 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Efforts to marginalize Native Americans and their culture could not diminish their transformational impact on popular music, from the Delta blues a... Read More
Signature Event A Conversation with John Freeman Tuesday, November 28, 2017 6:30pm Central Library 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... Read More
Signature Event Closing Chapter: End of the War in Vietnam Thursday, November 16, 2017 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Former ambassador David F. Lambertson, who served in Saigon in the mid-1960s as a member of the American embassy’s political secti... Read More
Signature Event Hollywood and the Vietnam War: Echoes of the War in American Film Thursday, November 2, 2017 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person As the Vietnam War escalated in the 1960s, Hollywood was struggling financially and the longtime studio system was collapsing. Into the vacuum step... Read More