The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
6:30pm
Anthony Swofford's new memoir, Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails, chronicles how in the years after the success...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 8, 2012
6:30pm
Historian Terry Beckenbaugh maintains that the Civil War was inevitable given the failure of the nation’s political leadership to res...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
6:30pm
Tanner Colby engages in a public conversation about his new book, Some of My Best Friends Are Black, with K...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
6:30pm
The Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862 is the bloodiest day in American military history. Now, exactly 150 years later, a panel of historians di...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
6:30pm
Historian Jim Denny examines the Battle of Island Mound, the first Civil War battle in which African-American soldiers engaged in com...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 26, 2012
6:30pm
Short story writer and novelist Adam Johnson discusses his work in a public conversation with local author Whitney Terrell...
Signature Event
Monday, February 27, 2012
6:30pm
Angela Elam, host of the New Letters on the Air radio program, conducts a public conversation with novelist...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
6:30pm
Historian Bud Bowie looks at economic miscalculations by Confederate President Jefferson Davis and other Southerners that in effect d...
Signature Event
Saturday, February 11, 2012
2:00pm
Musician/historian James Christopher Edwards brings the Civil War in Kansas and Missouri to life in this musical program about the no...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
6:30pm
Adam Arenson, assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso, examines the efforts of St. Louis’ intellectuals...