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 A Survey of Elemental Gratitude Saturday, October 7, 2023 4:00pm Central Library In Person In a discussion in conjunction with his Library exhibition A Survey of Elemental Gratitude, an arresting collection of photographs of Kansas’ Flint Hi... Read More
Signature Event Voting Access: Know the Law Saturday, October 1, 2022 2:00pm North-East Branch In Person Join KCUR Community Engagement Reporter Laura Ziegler in an informal discussion with voters’ advocates, including representatives... Read More
Signature Event Voting Access: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Headed Thursday, September 8, 2022 6:00pm Plaza Branch Online The Library and KCUR 89.3 kick off Securing Democracy, a three-part series inviting the community and its leaders to discuss securing democr... Read More
Activity Flash Nonfiction Saturday, October 12, 2024 11:15am Central Library In Person Everyone has a story. Sometimes it’s a chance encounter worthy of a mystery novel; sometimes it’s a simple moment of beauty that stops you in your... 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