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Sunday, August 18, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
William Quantrill’s August 21, 1863 Confederate raid on Lawrence, Kansas, left nearly 200 men and boys dead and the city in flames. Film expert...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Betty Ford is known for her battles with breast cancer and substance abuse. But perhaps even more than these struggles, says biograph...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
On the 150th anniversary of William Clarke Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Tony R. Mullis of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff...
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
As the oldest and favorite daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph was well educated, known on two continents...
Thursday, March 8, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Urban planner Joe Minicozzi looks at the “math” of effective city building, i.e., the financial implications of land use decisions in municipalities l...
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Urban designer Jim Kumon looks at the resurgence of small-scale urban neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Denver, and Minneapolis, among other cities, and h...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Chuck Marohn, founder of the nonprofit Strong Towns, launches the Making a Great City series with a critical look at how we build our cities and towns...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Nationally renowned urban thinker Chuck Marohn, who kicked off the Library’s Making a Great City series in January 2018, returns to assess the crucial...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Lady Bird Johnson was no mere White House photo prop.
The former Claudia Taylor once was described by husband Lyndon Johnson as “the brains a...