All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Thursday, July 26, 2012
6:30pm
In pursuing the Civil War, did Abraham Lincoln play fast and loose with civil liberties?
Pulitzer Prize winner Mark E. Neely, Jr.,...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 15, 2012
2:00pm
Since his first celluloid depiction in 1908, Jesse James has been the subject of more than 40 films and has been portrayed by the likes of Tyrone Powe...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 12, 2012
6:30pm
How could a president have won a war and lost a re-election? For George H.W. Bush, being Commander-in-Chief during Desert Storm was not enough....
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
6:30pm
Historian Jeff Broadwater argues that no single figure can tell us more about the origins of the American republic than our fourth pr...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 24, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Author Brandon G. Kinney explores the complex series of events that led to the brief but bloody Mormon War of 1838,...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 21, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Flamboyant, confident, and controversial, Edith Bolling Wilson was not your traditional First Lady. After her husband, Woodrow Wilson, suffered a debi...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 3, 2012
2:00pm
On the eve of the 136th anniversary of the famous “Last Stand,” retired National Park Service Superintendent Paul L. Hedren asks: Was...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Author Zachary Karabell examines Chester Alan Arthur, who was propelled into the presidency by the assassination of James Garfield an...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
6:30pm
Candice Millard, author of Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine & the Murder of a President...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
The first vice president to occupy the White House after the death of the incumbent, John Tyler was derided by critics as “His Accidency.” Yet histori...