A.K. Smiley Public Library’s “Resilient Redlands” webinar series focused on topics related to Redlands history and the collections of the Lincoln Memorial Shrine. Webinars were led by Smiley Library staff with a few special guests.
Past Webinars
2020
April 25 – “Intro to Redlands History”
May 2 – “From the Shrine’s Collections: Emancipation and Lincoln’s Letter to James Conkling”
May 9 – “The Great Crusade: Reflections on the 75th Anniversary of the End of World War II in Europe”
May 16 – “All Aboard for Redlands: How the Railroad Shaped Our Town”
May 23 – “From the Shrine’s Collections: The U.S. Sanitary Commission”
May 30 – “Redlands History in Motion: The Home Movie Preservation Project”
June 6 – “Reflections on D-Day and the Normandy Campaign”
June 13 – “From the Shrine’s Collections: Colonel Chapin and the 21st Connecticut Infantry”
June 27– “California Sunshine: Citrus Label Art of the Redlands District”
July 11 – “Grant’s First Great Victory: The Campaign for Forts Henry & Donelson”
July 25 – “Let’s Take a Walk Around the Block: A Brief Survey of Architecture in Redlands”
August 8 – “Hiroshima-Nagasaki: Reflections on the 75th Anniversary”
September 12 –“Booze, Brews, and Views: Redlands’s Uneasy Relationship with Spiritous Beverage”
September 26 – “Warriors & Patriots: Women of the Civil War”
October 10 – “Pure Gold Archives”
October 24 – “The Smiley Library Children’s Room Centennial: The Couple Behind the Gift”
November 14 – “Redlands and the Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1919”
December 12 –“The Smileys and Christmases Past”
2021
January 9 –“The Civil War in Southern California”
January 23 – “Redlands: The Town That Philanthropy Built”
February 6 – “African American literature” by Professor Charles Williams of Chaffey College
February 13 – “Lincoln’s Greatest Decision: Emancipation and the Use of Black Troops” with Smiley Library Director Don McCue
February 20 – “Black Voice News and the History of the Black Press” by Dr. Paulette Brown-Hinds
February 27 – “Hidden in Plain Sight: African Americans in the Library’s Historic Collections” with Archivist Dr. Nathan Gonzales
March 13 – “Women of Redlands in World War I”
March 27 – “The Indomitable Florence Billings of Redlands”
April 10 – “Water in Thirsty Land”
April 24 – “Redlands: A Heritage of Greenery”
May 9 – “The of Life Elmer Ellsworth of the 1st Fire Zouaves”
May 22 – “Midcentury Redlands”
Watch previous webinars on Smiley Library’s Facebook page and the Special Collections YouTube channel.
These programs were made possible by a generous grant from The Kara Foundation.