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History & Genealogy
Signature Event
Saturday, August 29, 2020
10:00am
Online
How close are we to ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment? The question hangs anew over Congress. And the courts. Erica Bens...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 27, 2020
6:30pm
Online
At 23, while serving as the youngest school principal in the state, Alice Chenoweth was excoriated in Ohio’s newspapers in 1876 for having an affai...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
6:30pm
Online
One hundred years ago this month, women won their fight for the right to vote – though not all of them. Black women, who had pleaded as passionatel...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 9, 2020
6:30pm
Online
In a discussion of his new, carefully researched book Tombstone, best-selling author Tom Clavin revisits Tu...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
6:30pm
Online
Germany’s defeat in World War II was inevitable by late 1943, but Adolf Hitler supposedly had an audacious plan for softening the final terms: disp...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
As the first of 70,000 U.S. Marines swept onto Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, victory was all but certain. The Americans had an overwhelming numeri...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 9, 2020
2:00pm
In Person
In 1934, brothers Dizzy and Daffy Dean were stars of Major League Baseball’s regular season and World Series. Following their St. Louis Cardinals’...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Hollywood immortalized one of the most famous prison breaks in wartime history, The Great Escape of 76 Allied soldiers and officers from Germany...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 5, 2020
2:00pm
In Person
Women who were pregnant and unmarried in the early 1900s faced limited options and societal scorn. Many chose, or were sent, to deliver their babie...
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Just before dawn on December 16, 1944, American forces in the Ardennes forests of Belgium and Luxemburg were surprised by the roar of German tanks...