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Books & Authors
Signature Event
Monday, April 25, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Everyone is susceptible to implicit bias – unconscious attitudes or stereotypes that affect judgments about others based on their race, ethnicity,...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 24, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
The Library continues its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and more than six months of special programming surrounding o...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 21, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
When The Washington Post asked 162 political science scholars earlier this year which American president should be added to Mount Rushmore...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
6:30pm
Award-winning writer, critic, and editor John Freeman launched the year’s most anticipated literary magazine, the biannual Freeman’s, in Sept...
Signature Event
Monday, April 18, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Beset by sex crimes and cover-ups, financial scandal, declining membership, and the stunning resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, the Catholic Church...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 14, 2016
6:30pm
It is one of the world’s most iconic images: a nude man, arms and legs outstretched, inside a square within a circle. Vitruvian Man – completed by Leo...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Guido Ruggiero underscored his position as one of the world’s leading authorities on the Italian Renaissance with his most recent...
Signature Event
Monday, April 11, 2016
6:30pm
Libraries were an essential part of life for Jane Austen – and for the characters in her novels. She made ample use of her father’s collection of more...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 24, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Democrats have occupied the White House for 15 of the past 23 years, and Thomas Frank pointedly asks: What do they have to show fo...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Among the things Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants left behind when they fled Kandahar after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was a cache...