The Vietnam War still has the power to divide Americans between those for and against it—and just as surely, between those who remember the era fir...

Annie Presley, co-author of the award-winning book Read This… When I’m Dead, joins us at the Plaza Library...

Brad Birzer examines the meaning of imagination as understood by Russell Kirk, an acknowledged founder of the modern conservative mov...

Steve Paul, a longtime writer and editor at The Kansas City Star, examines a transformative time in the life of an iconic wr...

In a discussion of his book U.S. Presidents and the Militarization of Space, 1946-1967, historian Sean Kalic...

As part of the multi-library Big Read initiative revolving around The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s seminal book about the Vietnam War,...

Sabermetrics savant Bill James applies his research and analytical skills to true-crime solving, making a convincing case that a more...

Harvard University’s Danielle Allen discusses her searing family memoir, which details her younger cousin’s tragic arc from aspiring...

Harvard University’s Danielle Allen visits the L.H. Bluford Branch for a special afternoon discussion of her new book,...

Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...