Signature Event Hollywood vs. History: 'The Man Who Would Be King' Monday, January 24, 2022 6:00pm Online The format of this event has been changed to virtual only. Watch online at yout... Read More
Signature Event Hollywood vs. History: 'Waterloo' Monday, March 14, 2022 6:00pm Plaza Branch In Person You want big-screen shock and awe? Russian director Sergei Bondarchuk and producer Dino De Laurentiis delivered it in Waterloo... Read More
Signature Event Hollywood vs. History: 'Memphis Belle' Monday, March 28, 2022 6:00pm Plaza Branch In Person The Memphis Belle and the men who flew the famed B-17 Flying Fortress became symbols of the heavy bomber crews and support personnel who helped def... Read More
Signature Event Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener Thursday, August 27, 2020 6:30pm Online 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 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
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 Hollywood vs. History: 'Dr. Strangelove' Monday, May 23, 2022 6:00pm Plaza Branch In Person Nearly 60 years after its release, Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb... 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 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: '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