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Sunday, February 14, 2016
1:00pm
In Person
Islamism – or political Islam, the movement to infuse Islam in all areas of life – is hardly a 21st century phenomenon. Winston S. Churchill was a...
Thursday, February 11, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Abraham Lincoln and William Shakespeare rose to prominence centuries and continents apart. But one of America’s greatest presidents felt a real con...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
They are the most famous and controversial directors in the history of the CIA – Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and William Casey – an...
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
6:30pm
Kansas City’s Barkley advertising agency hatched the enormously successful “Two Guys” campaign for Sonic Drive-In a little more than 12 years ago, let...
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
While perceived as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence existed everywhere in the decades following the Civil War – including Kansas and t...
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Local author and LEGO enthusiast Jonathan Bender headlines a public event marking the launch of the Library's new KC Kids Cre...
Thursday, January 28, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
August Bondi remains a compelling figure in Kansas history, a Jewish immigrant from Austria who fought alongside anti-slavery crusader John Brown a...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
If you’re not familiar with the theory of disruptive innovation, you’ve seen it at work: the advent of the personal computer, the rise of Netflix,...
Sunday, January 24, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
Was the December 29, 1890, massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, an act of war? U.S. government officials deemed it such. Or was the killing of s...