Music at the Library: Chamber Music Charleston Finale

Join us for the 2017-2018 Music at the Library Finale with CMC. This program will feature Ravel, Rota, and Mozart with music for Flute, Violin, Cello, and Piano. $20 members/$30 nonmembers. To purchase tickets, call 843-723-9912 or click here. Program Ravel Valses Nobles et Sentimentales Rota Trio for Flute, Violin and Piano Mozart/Hummel Piano Concerto in […]

Book Launch- Stand Forever, Yielding Never: Citadel in the 21st Century

Join us on Monday, April 23rd for the Stand Forever, Yielding Never official book launch. Author John Warley will be presenting a brief author talk and autographing books, which will be for sale at the event. This event is free to the public. To RSVP, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org On March 20, 1843, twenty young men from […]

Wide Angle Lunches: Dr. Kathleen Brady

Wide Angle Lunch is a thought-provoking lunch hour in the peaceful surroundings of the Charleston Library Society while you fulfill your appetite in every way. Dr. Kathleen Brady ~ Responding to the Opioid Experience In our opening lunchtime lecture, Dr. Brady will describe the state of the opioid epidemic in South Carolina and the nation at large.  […]

Speaker Series: David N. Schwartz

Dr. David N. Schwartz will discuss his recent biography, The Last Man Who Knew Everything- The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age. This event is free and open to the public. To RSVP, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org In 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved what no one had […]

Wide Angle Lunches: Sharon Richardson

Wide Angle Lunch is a thought-provoking lunch hour in the peaceful surroundings of the Charleston Library Society while you fulfill your appetite in every way. Sharon Richardson ~ Audubon Year of the Bird Birds have a peculiar power to connect us to each other, as well as to places and policy. Sharon Richardson, the Executive Director of […]

Speaker Series: Cinelle Barnes

Local author Cinelle Barnes will be joined in conversation with Jeanette Guinn, the Host of SC Public Radio(Arts Daily) to discuss her incredible memoir, Monsoon Mansion. To RSVP, please call 843-723-9912 […]

Wide Angle Lunches: Armand Derfner

Wide Angle Lunch is a thought-provoking lunch hour in the peaceful surroundings of the Charleston Library Society while you fulfill your appetite in every way. Armand Derfner ~ Welcome Mat or No […]

Speaker Series: Heather Lyn Mann

Join the Charleston Library Society and the Sophia Institute in experiencing one woman’s death-defying, life-affirming journey on the open ocean. Local author Heather Lyn Mann will share personal stories from Ocean […]

Wide Angle Lunches: Femi Oyediran & Miles White

Wide Angle Lunch is a thought-provoking lunch hour in the peaceful surroundings of the Charleston Library Society while you fulfill your appetite in every way. Femi Oyediran & Miles White ~ […]

Speaker Series: Johanna Neuman

Join us as we welcome Johnna Neuman in conversation as she discusses her most recent book Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women’s Right To Vote. To RSVP, call […]

CLS Book Club: Prairie Fires

CLS Book Club is back! This time we will discuss Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser. Please RSVP to this free event. To RSVP, call 843-723-9912 […]

A Conversation with Jon Meacham

NY Times Bestselling author Jon Meacham will visit The Charleston Library Society to discuss his latest book, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels with former Time, Inc. Editor […]

Speaker Series: Dorothea Benton Frank

NY Times Bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank dishes the latest Lowcountry dirt on her newest novel, By Invitation Only, at the Charleston Library Society, and despite the title, this ticketed event […]

Speaker Series: Patricia Moore-Pastides

Join us as we host USC First Lady and author Patricia Moore-Pastides to discuss her new book, At Home in the Heart of the Horseshoe: Life in the University of South Carolina’s President’s […]

Speaker Series: Frank Blair

Join the Library Society in welcoming Frank Blair as he speaks about his recent book, The Schooner Maggie B, telling the story of his true Southern Ocean circumnavigation, around the great capes, […]