All Library locations will be closed Monday, May 27, for Memorial Day.
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
6:30pm
Angela Elam of New Letters on the Air, aired locally on KCUR 89.3 FM, holds a public conversation with author and Independen...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
6:30pm
Patrick Rosal’s poetry, writes one critic, “skillfully navigates between despair and love, between violence and music, between loss a...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
6:30pm
Martin Espada, widely recognized as “the Latino poet of his generation,” joins Angela Elam from New Letters on t...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
6:30pm
Author-educator Herbert Alan Johnson explains how a lawsuit over a steamboat monopoly ultimately led to Congress gaining the power to...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 29, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
When police in Ohio raided Dollree Mapp’s home looking for evidence in a bombing, all they found were some “lascivious books.” Mapp appealed her porno...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Homer Plessy—a man of seven-eighths Caucasian descent and one-eighth African descent who was nevertheless considered black under Louisiana law—boarded...
Signature Event
Monday, October 18, 2010
8:30pm
American life changed forever in 1960 when Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy ushered politics into the multi...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
8:30pm
American life changed forever in 1960 when Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy ushered politics into the multi...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
8:30pm
American life changed forever in 1960 when Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy ushered politics into the multi...
Signature Event
Monday, September 27, 2010
8:30pm
American life changed forever in 1960 when...