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: '55 Days at Peking' Monday, August 8, 2022 6:00pm Plaza Branch Online In Person Military historian Geoff Babb assesses the historical accuracy of the 1963 film 55 Days at Peking, which delivers an epic retelling of a c... Read More
Signature Event Hollywood vs. History: The Great Escape Monday, July 11, 2022 6:00pm Plaza Branch In Person David Mills and Kayla Westra, co-authors of Great Wartime Escapes and Rescues, assess the historical accuracy of the classic 1963 film... 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 Hollywood vs. History: Kingdom of Heaven Monday, May 9, 2022 6:00pm Plaza Branch Online In Person Director Ridley Scott takes a sweeping look back to the Crusades and the brutal fighting between Christians and Muslims over the First Kingdom of J... Read More