The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
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....
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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...
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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
Candice Millard, author of Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine & the Murder of a President...
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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...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
6:30pm
James N. Giglio describes John F. Kennedy as “the most medicated, one of the most courageous, and perhaps the most self-absorbed of o...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
6:30pm
On the blog: Re...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
8:30pm
In Person
Walter Schroeder leads an examination of The WPA Guide to Missouri on Wednesday, September 16,...