The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
America’s longest war began with an Apache raid and kidnapping of an Arizona rancher’s 12-year-old stepson in 1861. It would last more than a quart...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Lady Bird Johnson was no mere White House photo prop.
The former Claudia Taylor once was described by husband Lyndon Johnson as “the brains a...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 8, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
Thomas Hart Benton’s national notoriety – as one of the most visible and controversial American painters of the 1930s – has overshadowed his time a...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Aristocratic and sophisticated, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, the wife of Theodore Roosevelt, ran the White House with a sure hand and figured prominentl...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 22, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
The country duo Granville Automatic performs songs from An Army Without Music, a recording project in which each song is...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Long before the Civil War began violence was commonplace along the Missouri-Kansas border. There a recurring cycle of robbery, arson, torture, murd...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Betty Ford is known for her battles with breast cancer and substance abuse. But perhaps even more than these struggles, says biograph...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
As the oldest and favorite daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph was well educated, known on two continents...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Adam Arenson, assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso, examines the efforts of St. Louis’ intellectuals...