Signature Event From Wettest Block to Wickedest City Sunday, June 6, 2021 3:00pm It was inevitable that the bawdy, alcohol-infused culture of 19th-century Kansas City would draw the ire of social reformers and prohibi... Read More
Signature Event Brides on the Santa Fe Trail Sunday, March 14, 2021 3:00pm In commemoration of the bicentennial anniversary of the Santa Fe Trail, historian Joy L. Poole examines the stories of five wives who... Read More
Signature Event A Legacy of Leadership Sunday, February 21, 2021 3:00pm While his story is not widely known, Kansas City civil rights leader Leon M. Jordan was among the most influential African Americans in Missou... Read More
Signature Event The Liberation of Manila Tuesday, October 6, 2020 6:30pm Central Library The Library’s long, popular partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth resumes with the first in a new serie... Read More
Signature Event Strictly Speaking: Equal Rights Should Have No Deadline Saturday, August 29, 2020 10:00am How close are we to ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment? The question hangs anew over Congress. And the courts. Erica Bens... Read More
Signature Event Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener Thursday, August 27, 2020 6:30pm At 23, while serving as the youngest school principal in the state, Alice Chenoweth was excoriated in Ohio’s newspapers in 1876 for having an affai... Read More
Signature Event Qualified Rights: Women’s Suffrage, Citizenship, and the 19th Amendment Reconsidered Tuesday, August 18, 2020 6:30pm One hundred years ago this month, women won their fight for the right to vote – though not all of them. Black women, who had pleaded as passionatel... Read More
Signature Event Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell Thursday, July 9, 2020 6:30pm In a discussion of his new, carefully researched book Tombstone, best-selling author Tom Clavin revisits Tu... Read More
Signature Event Iwo Jima: 'Uncommon Valor Was a Common Virtue' Tuesday, February 25, 2020 6:30pm Central Library In Person As the first of 70,000 U.S. Marines swept onto Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, victory was all but certain. The Americans had an overwhelming numeri... Read More
Signature Event The Dizzy and Daffy Dean Barnstorming Tour: Race, Media, and America's National Pastime Sunday, February 9, 2020 2:00pm Central Library In Person In 1934, brothers Dizzy and Daffy Dean were stars of Major League Baseball’s regular season and World Series. Following their St. Louis Cardinals’... Read More