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History & Genealogy
Signature Event
Thursday, November 1, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
With his thick spectacles, big teeth, and boundless energy, President Theodore Roosevelt was a cartoonist’s dream subject. Rick Marschall...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 25, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
For all his accomplishments and advanced thinking, Thomas Jefferson could not get beyond his own limited perspective in matters of race. Drawing from...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
The War of 1812 began with much confidence among U.S. leaders.
Thomas Jefferson predicted that the conquest of Canada was “a mere matter of marchin...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 21, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Peabody Award-winning radio personality Michael Lasser explores the songs inspired by our town, from “Everything’s Up To Date in...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Novelist Naomi Benaron and filmmaker Leah Warshawski, descendants of Holocaust survivors, discuss their work abou...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 14, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Jim Chappell has accumulated a treasure trove of sports memorabilia that covers the walls of his restaurant. Dozens of sports persona...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 27, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Taking the White House requires a team, and America had never seen anything like the husband-and-wife team of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Historian...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Americans view the Korean conflict as an American war in which the United States lost nearly 38,000 men. But above all else it was a war between Korea...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 23, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
No president since the founders has done more to shape American government than Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Alan Brinkley arg...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 20, 2012
6:30pm
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Thomas Jefferson, as portrayed by Patri...