All Library locations will be closed Wednesday, June 19, for Juneteenth.
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book, Mark Bowden (author of the best-seller Black Hawk Down) details one of...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 12, 2017
6:30pm
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...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
6:30pm
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,...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
6:30pm
The country continues to struggle with the issue of capital punishment and questions ranging from how fairly sentences are imposed and carried out to...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
6:30pm
Incentives of various types are widely offered to encourage and promote economic development – a point of competition and controversy in a years-long...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
6:30pm
Educators and researchers have long recognized the importance of mastering reading by the end of third grade. Students falling short often falter in l...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
6:30pm
The Library, in partnership with American Public Square, launches a series of discussions of polarizing local issues – minus the inci...
Signature Event
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
6:30pm
The Library, in partnership with American Public Square, launches a series of discussions of polarizing local issues – minus the inci...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
6:30pm
Author-educator Herbert Alan Johnson explains how a lawsuit over a steamboat monopoly ultimately led to Congress gaining the power to...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 29, 2013
6:30pm
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...