The Plaza Branch will close at 2 p.m. Saturday, October 19, due to building repairs.
Signature Event
Thursday, October 25, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
For all his accomplishments and advanced thinking, Thomas Jefferson could not get beyond his own limited perspective in matters of race. Drawing from...
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Taking the White House requires a team, and America had never seen anything like the husband-and-wife team of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Historian...
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Sunday, September 23, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
No president since the founders has done more to shape American government than Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Alan Brinkley arg...
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Seemingly austere and reportedly passive in the face of a national economic calamity, Herbert Hoover is somewhat of a political orphan. But biograp...
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Thursday, July 26, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
In pursuing the Civil War, did Abraham Lincoln play fast and loose with civil liberties?
Pulitzer Prize winner Mark E. Neely, Jr....
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
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....
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Historian Jeff Broadwater argues that no single figure can tell us more about the origins of the American republic than our fourth pr...
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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...
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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...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Candice Millard, author of Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine & the Murder of a President...