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 Star Trek: First Contact (1996, PG) Saturday, September 10, 2016 1:30pm Central Library In Person Fifty years ago this month, on September 8, 1966, NBC launched a new science-fiction television series that would become one of the most revered franc... Read More
Signature Event Election Insiders Tuesday, August 2, 2016 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Less than 100 days before Americans go to the polls, the latest installment of Dateline: Washington examines what has been one of the... Read More
Signature Event Election Insiders - RealClearPolitics’ Carl Cannon Tuesday, March 29, 2016 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person In the wake of the Super Tuesday primaries, the Library and the Truman Library Institute launch a new season of Dateline:... Read More
Signature Event Disciples: The World War II Missions of the CIA Directors Who Fought for Wild Bill Donovan Wednesday, February 10, 2016 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person They are the most famous and controversial directors in the history of the CIA – Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and William Casey – an... Read More
Signature Event A Defining Moment: The “Greatest Generation” in the White House Tuesday, May 5, 2015 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Among our “greatest generation” was a succession of U.S. presidents who were informed and defined by World War II. Harry Truman, who oversaw the en... Read More
Signature Event When Kansas City Went to War - Henry Bloch, Edward T. Matheny Jr., Bill Dunn Sr. Wednesday, March 25, 2015 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person ... Read More
Signature Event Can Anyone Stop Her? Wednesday, April 9, 2014 6:30pm Central Library In Person Remember Barack Obama’s subtle 2008 putdown of Hillary Clinton, when he called her “likable enough?” Maybe the joke is on him.... Read More