The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Sunday, January 12, 2020
1:30pm
In Person
Sigmund Freud, the celebrated father of psychoanalysis, often referenced literature and theater in his analytic theory. The annual Searc...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 1, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
There remains a haunting stillness over the grounds around Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland, where 3,650 Union and Confederate soldiers per...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 16, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Public historians Diane Eickhoff and Aaron Barnhart recall how hundreds of women defied cultural norms of the time t...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 19, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In the keynote address for the Quindaro Symposium, held April 19-21 in Kansas City, Kansas, historian Quintard Taylor exp...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
New York-area pianist/vocalist John Bauers portrays legendary lyricist Johnny Mercer (“One More for My Baby,” “Moon River,” “Days of Wine and Roses”),...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 4, 2018
1:30pm
In Person
The 2017 Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series, spotlighting the works of stylish, idiosyncratic director David Lynch, wraps up...
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
Sunday, March 12, 2017
1:30pm
In Person
This annual series wraps its psychological studies of movies directed by Joel and Ethan Coen with 1990’s Miller’s Cros...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 26, 2017
1:30pm
In Person
This annual series returns in January and February with psychological studies of films directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, whose visi...