Events

RESCHEDULED FROM JUNE 23RD, 2026. What does the dog say? Zip zap wickety wack! We look forward to hosting award-winning cartoonist and The New Yorker contributor, Matt Diffee, for a special, silly story time to debut his new children’s book. Stemming from classic animal sound books, and already slated as best for the category under […]

RESCHEDULED FROM JUNE 23RD, 2026. Matthew Diffee has been contributing cartoons to The New Yorker since 1999, with work also appearing in Time, The Huffington Post, The Believer, and Texas Monthly magazines. As the editor of three volumes of The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw and Never Will See in The New Yorker, published […]

Given the ongoing success of our paper marbling workshops, we are thrilled to introduce a new twist using traditional Turkish paper marbling in creating your own designs on a variety of materials. In this hands-on class, you’ll learn how to float pigments on water, manipulate colors with tools, and transform them into enchanting shapes like […]

Please join us for a new member perk, Chapter Chats, happening every second Tuesday of the month at 10:30 am! Whether you're in the middle of a 5-star book, stuck in a slump, or just want to check out what others are reading, gather in the Suzan D. Boyd Fellows Lounge to talk all things […]

From the 2026 Pulitzer Prize winner of We the People comes an urgent account of how rule by machine has ravaged the world in The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State. Jill Lepore is an international best-selling author, American historian, and journalist currently serving as the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History and Professor […]

Having recent acclaim in places such as the Met and High Museum for his work with Hear Me Now: Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, University of Michigan professor Jason Young teaches and researches in the fields of Nineteenth-Century United States History, African American History, and the African Diaspora. Given his specialty across history […]

The Middle East is undergoing one of its most significant strategic realignments in decades. From Iran and regional proxy networks to shifting alliances, emerging governments, and renewed great-power competition, the security landscape is changing rapidly. Drawing on her experience across intelligence, humanitarian operations, and regional engagement, Spirit of America’s regional director for the Middle East […]

As sister cities, both starting as young colonies on the East Coast, New York and Charleston have similar yet vastly different growth trajectories. While New York gave up architecture for ‘progress’, Charleston has been recognized as the birthplace of the historic preservation movement. Join Charleston Library Society Board member Bob Macdonald, Director Emeritus of the […]

Explore the vast and engaging history of the invention that made an industry boom like no other — the automobile. Having explored many topics, the latest by architect, emeritus professor, and celebrated author Witold Rybczynski journeys through time from Carl Benz’s three-wheel contraption in 1855 to the Golden Age of American car design, car culture, […]

Co-founder of the ProHuman Foundation, Daryl Davis, is an American R&B and blues musician recognized for being one of the greatest Blues, Boogie Woogie & Rock ’n’ Roll pianists of all time. However, he may be more widely renowned for his success in confronting racism through friendships founded by dialogue and discourse with long-standing members […]