Signature Event Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener Thursday, August 27, 2020 6:30pm At 23, while serving as the youngest school principal in the state, Alice Chenoweth was excoriated in Ohio’s newspapers in 1876 for having an affai... Read More
Signature Event Hollywood vs. History: 'The Last Samurai' Monday, December 12, 2022 6:00pm Plaza Branch In Person Military historian Christopher Johnson assesses the 2003 film... Read More
Signature Event Hollywood vs. History: 'Black Hawk Down' Monday, November 14, 2022 6:00pm Plaza Branch In Person Military historian Dirk Ringgenberg assesses the historical accuracy of the 2001 film... Read More
Signature Event Hollywood vs. History: 'Judgment at Nuremberg' Monday, October 10, 2022 6:00pm Plaza Branch In Person Seventy-five years after the real-life trial it depicts, Mark Hull of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College assesses the... Read More
Signature Event Hollywood vs. History: 'Patton' Monday, September 12, 2022 6:00pm Plaza Branch In Person World War II scholar William S. (Bill) Nance, a former Army armor officer, assesses the historical accuracy of one of the greatest military movies... Read More
Signature Event Hollywood vs. History: World War II and The Best Years of Our Lives Monday, June 27, 2022 6:00pm Plaza Branch In Person Brian Steed of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College continues the Hollywood vs. History series, examining the film industry’s role in sh... Read More
Signature Event Hollywood vs. History: Glory Monday, June 13, 2022 6:00pm Plaza Branch In Person Military historian Harry S. Laver of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College separates fact from Hollywood fiction in one of the most acclaime... Read More
Signature Event Strictly Speaking: Equal Rights Should Have No Deadline Saturday, August 29, 2020 10:00am Online How close are we to ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment? The question hangs anew over Congress. And the courts. Erica Bens... Read More
Signature Event Qualified Rights: Women’s Suffrage, Citizenship, and the 19th Amendment Reconsidered Tuesday, August 18, 2020 6:30pm Online One hundred years ago this month, women won their fight for the right to vote – though not all of them. Black women, who had pleaded as passionatel... Read More