Lifelong Learning: Hamlet with Nan Morrison – Week 3

Join us for the next installment of Lifelong Learning! The mysteries of Hamlet have intrigued playgoers for over 400 years and inspired innumerable adaptations in 70 languages. This class will consider those […]

The Royal Oak Foundation: Dr. Madge Dresser

Hidden Connections: Slavery and the British Country House Reception following lecture; $30 members; $40 non-members To register: Please visit www.royal-oak.org/lectures or call 212-480-2889, ext. 201. Please use the Charleston Library Society’s code 18SCHLIB to receive […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie books Millions of readers of Little House […]

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 in Chief, John Huey. In this timely look at tumultuous periods when Presidents and ordinary citizens came together to defeat the forces of fear and […]

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 is open to the public! By Invitation Only tells the tale of two families from two very different worlds: the affluence of a Chicago high society […]