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A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father


In "A Good American Family," David Maraniss recounts his family’s ordeal during the Red Scare of the 1950s. Find an Event

Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote


Author Susan Ware looks beyond the national leadership and gives voice to the thousands of women who protested, petitioned, and insisted on their rights Find an Event

The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught in Between


Author Michael Dobbs tells the powerful story of German Jews from the village of Kippenheim who sought American visas to escape Nazi Germany. Find an Event

America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today


Author Pamela Nadell weaves together stories of extraordinary women who helped carve out a Jewish American identity. Find an Event

Special Exhibit Opens: Apollo 11: One Giant Leap for Mankind


Special Exhibit commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The exhibit opens April 29, 2019, and runs through January 12, 2020. Find an Event

Special Exhibit: Apollo 11: One Giant Leap for Mankind


Special Exhibit commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The exhibit opens April 29, 2019, and runs through January 12, 2020. Find an Event

Issues Forum: James Olson, "To Catch A Spy: The Art of Counterintelligence"


Former spy Jim Olson joins the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum for an Issues Forum over his new book, “To Catch a Spy: The Art of Counterintelligence." Find an Event

PEN/Hemingway Award Ceremony


Seán Hemingway presents the 2019 PEN/Hemingway Award to Tommy Orange for There, There: A Novel at this ceremony. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen delivers the keynote address. Find an Event

A Conversation with His Excellency Juan Manuel Santos Calderón


His Excellency Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, former President of Colombia, discusses key global issues with Professor Ricardo Hausmann, former Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank. Find an Event

President Carter: The White House Years


Stuart E. Eizenstat, former domestic policy adviser to President Carter, discussed his book, President Carter: The White House Years, with Meredith Evans, director of the Carter Presidential Library and Museum.
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