In a polarized world, meaningful dialogue across ideological divides is both challenging and essential. This workshop introduces participants to the value of engaging with opposing views and offers practical tools...
Join the Willard Library and the hosts of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's One True Podcast series for a discussion about the inspiration, composition, and craft of Ernest Hemingway's iconic Lost Generation masterpiece, The Sun Also Rises.
As Kirkus Reviews wrote, this book is a work of “historical fiction that feels uncomfortably relevant today.” Author Mary Doria Russell takes readers to Calumet, Michigan in 1913 and follows...
What can a 75-year-old science fiction classic teach us about the future? Technology promises to connect us, but can it also drive us further apart? Seventy-five years after its publication,...
In this 1972 animated TV special, viewers watch a student body election unfold and learn about campaigning and many of the controversies that go along with it. Based on the...
Learn about Osbert Sumner, an amateur photographer who captured a unique perspective of Indianapolis at the turn of the twentieth century, and the efforts to preserve his images.
Learn how slavery existed in Indiana, explore enslaved people's lives and their struggles for freedom in Indiana's early years, and examine the long-term effects of slavery on Black communities in the region.
November 17 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Teens and young adults are invited to read and talk together as Voices and Votes: Democracy in America comes to the Prindle...
Join us as we close Voices and Votes: Democracy in America with an evening of poetry, music and community. Indiana Poet Laureate Curtis L. Crisler brings his Pop-Up Indiana Chitlin...
Join us for our monthly book club for the scientifically curious!
The Smithsonian’s traveling exhibition, Voices and Votes: Democracy in America, will continue its tour of Indiana at the Jennings County Historical Society in Vernon where it will be on display...
Learn the history of Indianapolis's Real Silk Hosiery Company, from its rise in the door-to-door market to its decline during the Great Depression.