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
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
6:30pm
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...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
In the wake of the Super Tuesday primaries, the Library and the Truman Library Institute launch a new season of Dateline:...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
6:30pm
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...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
6:30pm
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...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
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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, 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...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 26, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
University of Pennsylvania historian Stephanie McCurry offers a new interpretation of the Confederacy that contends the South sowe...