Signature Event Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener Thursday, August 27, 2020 6:30pm 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 Closing Chapter: End of the War in Vietnam Thursday, November 16, 2017 6:30pm Plaza Branch 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 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
Signature Event Viewing Vietnam: A Matter of Time and Place Tuesday, October 31, 2017 6:30pm Central Library The war experience in Vietnam varied greatly, depending on when and where you served. A panel of military veterans, convened by the U.S. Ar... Read More
Signature Event Standing Up and Sitting Down: Protests and Dissent in the 1960s and Beyond Wednesday, October 25, 2017 6:30pm Central Library During the Vietnam conflict, battles on the homefront went beyond anti-war protests. Activists gathered in support of many cultural movements: civi... Read More
Signature Event We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War Thursday, October 19, 2017 6:30pm Central Library In Person For many U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, music was the connection between battlefront and homefront and helped them cope with the complexities of the war... Read More
Signature Event Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam Wednesday, October 18, 2017 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person In a discussion of his new book, Mark Bowden (author of the best-seller Black Hawk Down) details one of... Read More
Signature Event The Things They Carried Thursday, October 12, 2017 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person The Vietnam War still has the power to divide Americans between those for and against it—and just as surely, between those who remember the era fir... Read More
Signature Event Writers at War: Literature and the Wartime Experience Wednesday, September 27, 2017 6:30pm Central Library In Person As part of the multi-library Big Read initiative revolving around The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s seminal book about the Vietnam War,... Read More