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Signature Event
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Presidential races are the stuff of myth, sometimes literally. Like the 1952 contest between Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson, both purportedly r...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 17, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The Soviet Union’s 1957 launch of Sputnik, the world’s first satellite, was a critical Cold War moment for Dwight D. Eisenhower. What he called “a sma...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
2015 commemorates not only the 125th anniversary of the birth of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, but also the U.S. Census Bureau’s declaration that th...
Signature Event
Monday, January 24, 2022
6:00pm
Online
The format of this event has been changed to virtual only. Watch online at yout...
Signature Event
Saturday, January 27, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
In a special Missouri Valley Saturdays discussion of her new book States of Swing: The History of the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra, 2003-2023, author Li...
Signature Event
Saturday, February 10, 2024
1:00pm
In Person
Drawing from their respective books, KelLee Parr and Stephen Rowley share their personal connections to The Willows, the most prominent of Kansas City...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
6:30pm
Dwight Eisenhower was a man of simple tastes but decisive action. Behind the dry smile was a brilliant, intellectual tactician, an attribute—als...
Signature Event
Monday, December 12, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Military historian Christopher Johnson assesses the 2003 film...
Signature Event
Monday, November 14, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Military historian Dirk Ringgenberg assesses the historical accuracy of the 2001 film...
Signature Event
Monday, October 10, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Seventy-five years after the real-life trial it depicts, Mark Hull of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College assesses the...