For tickets, please call (843) 723-9912 or click here.  $20 members, $25 nonmembers. Is Charleston at a tipping point in its long and fraught history of race relations? Is this community […]

Richard Hagerty is a surrealist artist who for more than 40 years has painted fantastic, visionary worlds. Join us to celebrate his new book, American Surrealist. Often based on dreams, always […]

Current Charleston resident, Charlotte Caldwell, will showcase her newly released book, Kirby’s Journal- Backyard Butterfly Magic. The macro photography from Kirby’s Journal inspires children of all ages to go outdoors, watch inquisitively, and share […]

For tickets, please call (843) 723-9912 or click here. $20 members, $25 nonmembers. When cataclysmic events rock our present day—when it seems so clear that we are living history—it can feel […]

From the author of Comeback Love, Peter Golden returns with a sweeping, panoramic tale of twentieth-century America, chronicling the decades-long love affair between a Jewish immigrant and the granddaughter of a […]

In collaboration with the Waring Library Society, CLS will host a NOT by the Book seminar with guest speaker, Dr. Theresa Gonzales. Dr. Gonzales will lecture on John Shaw Billings […]

Deb Ebenstein Mani Pedi STAT Diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease at age 16, Deb Ebenstein underwent surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation treatment during the years of prom, pimples, and SATs.  At 28 […]

Director Emeritus of the Museum of the City of New York and Vice Chair Emeritus of the South Carolina Aquarium, Bob Macdonald will give a lecture celebrating the life of […]

Our own Charleston Symphony Orchestra musicians join us again to get us in the spirit of the Christmas and Chanukah holidays.  This year we will be entertained by a string […]

To purchase tickets, click here or call (843) 723-9912. The format for this event will be an interview/discussion with Jon Meacham and John Huey, former Editor-in-Chief at Time, Inc, who got his start […]

Jerrold Mitchell, partner at the investment firm of Saltonstall & Co., emeritus trustee of the Boston Athenaeum, and a book collector for more than half a century, will explain how […]

Come listen to Brian Hicks speak about the release of his new book The Mayor: Joe Riley and the Rise of Charleston. Brian Hicks is The Post and Courier’s metro […]

The CLS Book Club returns for the first time in the New Year. This Book Club selection will be H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald. The presentation will have a special […]

January 19th at 5:00 PM, please join of us for the 268th Annual Meeting of the Charleston Library Society with guest speaker, Curtis Ravenel, Global Head of Sustainable Business and […]

Annual Gala with guest speaker Darla Moore- Antiquarian Foundations of Capitalism For details, call (843) 723-9912