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Tuesday, August 6, 2013 6:30pm
In Person
Following the conclusion of the Mexican-American War in 1848, the border between the two countries remained in flux, a flexible barrier that restricte...
Exhibit
May 28, 2016 - July 3, 2016
As Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet, "The apparel oft proclaims the man." The play, too. No less distinctive than the Bard's timeless text is t...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 21, 2018 1:30pm
In Person
Searching the Psyche Through Cinema, the annual and incisive screening-and-discussion series, returns with psychological studies of films directed by...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 11, 2018 2:00pm
In Person
Just before the 2018 Oscars are presented, the Library screens three uplifting, Academy Award-winning or nominated shorts in the latest installment of...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 12, 2017 6:30pm
In Person
Hanging in the balance as the nation elected a new president was a U.S. Supreme Court vacancy created the previous February, when Justice Antonin Scal...
Signature Event
Monday, June 19, 2017 1:30pm
In Person
The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s four-part series of inside-the-play presentations focuses on its summer production of the...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 3, 2016 7:00pm
In Person
Historian Peter Cozzens offers an evenhanded look at that bloody struggle between whites and Native Americans, drawing from...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 21, 2015 6:30pm
In Person
LaShonda Katrice Barnett’s debut novel—about a black female journalist escaping the early-1900s Jim Crow laws of the South a...