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EX LIBRIS: Annette Gordon-Reed
Annette Gordon-Reed, a Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning scholar, is a preeminent historian of early America, law, slavery, and the country’s third president. Join…
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Virtual Cocktail Party!
Put on your fancy pants, and join us for our monthly virtual toast and chat. This evening’s prompts: What are you drinking? Do you have…
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EX LIBRIS: Rough Riders
Today, we know about the Rough Riders mostly as a colorful chapter in the life of Theodore Roosevelt. But there is much more to the…
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Little Women Book Group: Part 1
To celebrate the arrival of our new Louisa May Alcott bust at the library, we are revisiting her timeless story, Little Women. This intergenerational reading…
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The Public’s Voice
The Public’s Radio’s Ian Donnis moderates a panel discussion about the upcoming presidential election. The panelists joining Ian will be announced closer to the program.…
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EX LIBRIS: David Blight
David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance,…
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BEHIND-THE-SCENES: The Bust Project
Three new faces have recently joined the busts surrounding the mezzanine – help us welcome Mary Wollstonecraft, Frederick Douglass, and Louisa May Alcott! Learn more…
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EX LIBRIS: From Here to Equality
Today’s black-white wealth gap originated with the unfulfilled promise of 40 acres in 1865. The payment of this debt in the 21st century is feasible—and…
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EX LIBRIS: Mary Wollstonecraft
First-time readers of Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) are often surprised by how little Wollstonecraft actually says about rights. There…
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Virtual Little Pumpkins’ Party!
It’s time for the littlest pumpkins to hop off the pumpkin vine, zip into their costumes, and join us on Zoom to celebrate Halloween at…
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EX LIBRIS: Louisa May Alcott
In December 1862, Louisa May Alcott began her service as a Union army nurse at a ramshackle hospital in Georgetown. Less than a week later,…
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Little Women Book Group: Part 2
To celebrate the arrival of our new Louisa May Alcott bust at the library, we are revisiting her timeless story, Little Women. This intergenerational reading…
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