Signature Events - Video | Kansas City Public Library

Justin Wolff - Thomas Hart Benton: A Life

April 12, 2012

Edward P. Crapol: John Tyler

April 11, 2012

Paul Benson - City of Fountains: Underneath the Water and Sculpture

March 29, 2012

Noah Feldman - Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Justices

March 27, 2012

Attica Locke: Black Water Rising

March 21, 2012

James N. Giglio: John F. Kennedy

March 20, 2012

Philip White - Our Supreme Task: How Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech Defined the Cold War Alliance

March 7, 2012

Shawn Leigh Alexander - An Army of Lions: The Civil Rights Struggle Before the NAACP

March 6, 2012

Edgar Snow

March 1, 2012

Amity Shlaes - Calvin Coolidge: The President Who Said “No”

February 29, 2012

Rebecca Solnit - Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas

February 28, 2012

Bud Bowie: Jefferson Davis and His Cause

February 22, 2012

Blair Kerkhoff: NAIA Basketball & the Civil Rights Movement

February 19 20, 2012

Zakes Mda: Sometimes There Is A Void

February 16, 2012

Jennifer Phegley - Courtship and Marriage in Victorian England

February 9, 2012

Randy Roberts - A Team for America: The Army-Navy Game that Rallied a Nation

February 2, 2012

Stephanie McCurry: Confederate Reckoning

January 26, 2012

Richard B. Frank: China’s “War of Resistance” 1937-42

January 24, 2012

Terence O’Malley - Black Hand Strawman: The History of Organized Crime in Kansas City

January 15 16, 2012

Jeff Lanza - Federal Cases: Inside the Kansas City FBI

January 12, 2012

Wendell Potter: Deadly Spin

January 11, 2012

Unveiling a Governor: A Conversation with Former Missouri Governor Bob Holden

January 5, 2012

Stephen Breyer - Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge’s View

December 8 9, 2011

Theodore Wilson: Pearl Harbor and the Heartland, Seventy Years On

December 4 5, 2011