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 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
Signature Event Understanding Ike: Four Key Eisenhower Traits and Their Role in the Space Race - Yanek Mieczkowski Thursday, September 17, 2015 6:30pm Central Library In Person The Soviet Union’s 1957 launch of Sputnik, the world’s first satellite, was a critical Cold War moment for Dwight D. Eisenhower. What he called “a... Read More
Signature Event Liking Ike and Adlai: New Thoughts on the 1952 Presidential Election - John Robert Greene Tuesday, August 4, 2015 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Presidential races are the stuff of myth, sometimes literally. Like the 1952 contest between Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson, both purportedl... Read More
Signature Event Ike’s Bluff Wednesday, May 20, 2015 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Dwight Eisenhower was a man of simple tastes but decisive action. Behind the dry smile was a brilliant, intellectual tactician, an attribute—... Read More
Signature Event The Voices of Heaven - Maija Rhee Devine Wednesday, March 5, 2014 6:30pm Central Library In Person Angela Elam of New Letters on the Air, aired locally on KCUR 89.3 FM, holds a public conversation with author and Indepen... Read More
Signature Event A Conversation with Patrick Rosal Tuesday, November 12, 2013 6:30pm Central Library In Person Patrick Rosal’s poetry, writes one critic, “skillfully navigates between despair and love, between violence and music, between los... Read More
Signature Event The Trouble Ball - Martin Espada Tuesday, October 22, 2013 6:30pm Central Library In Person Martin Espada, widely recognized as “the Latino poet of his generation,” joins Angela Elam from New Letters on t... Read More