The North-East branch will be closed Monday, August 26 for staff training.
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
6:30pm
Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
6:30pm
Author Mary Beth Leatherdale lends context to today’s heart-rending stream of refugees from Syria and other troubled countries in a d...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
6:30pm
Originally airing on PBS’ Frontline, Being Mortal follows Boston surgeon Atul Gawande in examining how we care for...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 10, 2017
2:00pm
Folklorist and historian Adam Miller recalls the frontier-life origins of the folk music of Kansas and Missouri. A singer and autohar...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 10, 2017
2:00pm
The Library continues its special, intergenerational movie series for individuals with dementia, their friends, and families with the amiable, comp...
Signature Event
Friday, September 8, 2017
8:00pm
Doors open: 8 pm • Program: 8:45 pm...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 7, 2017
6:30pm
Patrick Henry is a largely forgotten founding father today, his accomplishments overshadowed by his oratory. Historian Jon Kukla, former director of t...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
6:30pm
In a discussion of his new book The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein makes the case that the racial divide i...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 31, 2017
6:30pm
Sonny Ramaswamy, director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, examines the exquisite paradox of the Monarch butterfly...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
6:30pm
In a discussion of her book Marriage Markets, the University of Minnesota’s June Carbone – a former law pro...