One of the most famous names in comedy and a team of talented improv artists will gather at the University of Dubuque's Heritage Center on April 14, with the venue's John & Alice Butler Hall housing the touring sensation Jim Belushi &b the Board of Comedy, a riotous night of laughter starring the legendary comedian from According to Jim and Saturday Night Live.

An in-person presentation focused on a fascinating period in German-American history, author Aaron Spencer Fogleman's program Hopeful Journeys: German Immigration, Settlement, & Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717 – 1775 will be held at Davenport's German American Heritage Center on April 8, his book of the same title the first comprehensive account of this 18th-century German settlement of North America.

A special event in the 3rd Thursday at Hoover’s Presidential Library & Museum series landing instead on the month's first Tuesday, the Davenport Public Library's virtual presentation A Prairie Village: Herbert Hoover's West Branch, 1874 to 1885 will, on April 5, deliver a fascinating exploration into Herbert Hoover’s hometown and the people and places that the future president knew.

The funny bone of one of the United States' most revered presidents will be explored at the Davenport Public Library Eastern Branch on April 6 when historian and former professor William Hampes presents The Humor of American Lincoln, a program focusing on the types of humor that Lincoln used, how he used them in politics and his personal life to achieve his goals, and what his sense of humor demonstrated about his personality.