Signature Event Strictly Speaking: Equal Rights Should Have No Deadline Saturday, August 29, 2020 10:00am How close are we to ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment? The question hangs anew over Congress. And the courts. Erica Bens... Read More
Signature Event Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener Thursday, August 27, 2020 6:30pm 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... Read More
Signature Event Qualified Rights: Women’s Suffrage, Citizenship, and the 19th Amendment Reconsidered Tuesday, August 18, 2020 6:30pm 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... Read More
Signature Event Titanic Lives: Kristen Iversen and Julie Hedgepeth Williams discuss survivors of the Titanic Sunday, April 15, 2012 2:00pm Central Library Kristen Iversen, author of Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth, examines the colorful life of the famed “unsinkable” Molly Brow... Read More
Signature Event Wade Sisson: Racing Through the Night Saturday, April 14, 2012 1:00pm Waldo Branch Author Wade Sisson discusses the Titanic’s sister ship, the R.M.S. Olympic, which steamed 300 miles in a desperate... Read More
Signature Event Howard Iceberg & the Titanics: Welcome Aboard! Friday, April 13, 2012 6:30pm Central Library A Titanic weekend kicks off with an outdoor*, Rooftop Terrace concert by veteran folk-rockers Howard Iceberg & the Titanics. Mainstay... Read More
Signature Event The Great Debates Revisited: Rick Perlstein Monday, October 18, 2010 8:30pm Plaza Branch American life changed forever in 1960 when Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy ushered politics into the multi... Read More
Signature Event The Great Debates Revisited: Timothy Naftali Tuesday, October 12, 2010 8:30pm Plaza Branch American life changed forever in 1960 when Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy ushered politics into the multi... Read More
Signature Event The Great Debates Revisited: James Roth Tuesday, October 5, 2010 8:30pm Plaza Branch American life changed forever in 1960 when Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy ushered politics into the multi... Read More
Signature Event The Great Debates Revisited: Sander Vanocur Monday, September 27, 2010 8:30pm Plaza Branch American life changed forever in 1960 when... Read More