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Movie: 'Get Smart'

Friday, August 16, 2024 2:00pm

Central Library

In Person

Join us for Film Fridays every week in August at 2 p.m. in the 3North Resource Center. Unwind with a nice afternoon movie. No registration or RSVP...

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Movie: 'BlackkKlansman'

Friday, August 23, 2024 2:00pm

Central Library

In Person

Join us for Film Fridays every week in August at 2 p.m. in the 3North Resource Center. Unwind with a nice afternoon movie. No registration or RSVP...

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Edith Kermit Roosevelt

Wednesday, April 22, 2015 6:30pm

Plaza Branch

Aristocratic and sophisticated, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, the wife of Theodore Roosevelt, ran the White House with a sure hand and figured prominently i...

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Lady Bird Johnson - Betty Boyd Caroli

Tuesday, November 10, 2015 6:30pm

Plaza Branch

Lady Bird Johnson was no mere White House photo prop. The former Claudia Taylor once was described by husband Lyndon Johnson as “the brains and mon...

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Martha Jefferson Randolph

Wednesday, June 5, 2013 6:30pm

Plaza Branch

As the oldest and favorite daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph was well educated, known on two continents...

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Quantrill in the Movies: John Tibbetts

Sunday, August 18, 2013 2:00pm

Central Library

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...

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The Sack of Lawrence and the Guerrilla War

Wednesday, August 21, 2013 6:30pm

Central Library

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...

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Guerrillas in Our Midst

August 18, 2013 - December 29, 2013

Central Library

Before and during the Civil War, Confederate guerrillas – men like William Clarke Quantrill, “Bloody Bill” Anderson, and Frank and Jesse James – battl...

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