The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Thursday, December 7, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book President McKinley: Architect of the American Century, acclaimed historian Robert Merry gives 2...
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, July 26, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
A questionable court-martial ended Henry Ossian Flipper's military career in 1882—he'd be pardoned more than a century later—but it scarcely staine...
Signature Event
Saturday, July 15, 2017
2:00pm
In Person
Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Sopranois one of the seminal works of the Theatre of the Absurd. He got the idea for the play from the...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Veteran British director and master acting teacher Ian Wooldridge has helmed more than 100 stage productions, including The Tempes...
Signature Event
Saturday, June 3, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Sidney Blumenthal, a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton and later an advisor to Hillary Clinton, continues to offer a fresh...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy was three years into his incendiary search for Communists when Dwight Eisenhower assumed the presidency in 1953. Ike...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 12, 2017
2:00pm
In Person
African-Americans have served proudly in every great American war, including the Civil War, where their verve and valor led to the establishment of...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
This year’s election stakes are high, as always. But perhaps no presidential vote in U.S. history was more consequential than that of 1860....
Signature Event
Sunday, June 26, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
The Library continues its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and more than six months of special programming surrounding o...