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Thursday, May 7, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Tired of an unfulfilling life in Kansas City, Patrick Dobson left his job and set off on foot across the Great Plains. He arrived...
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Among our “greatest generation” was a succession of U.S. presidents who were informed and defined by World War II. Harry Truman, who oversaw the en...
Monday, May 4, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The Kansas City Royals were on their way to a fourth 100-loss season in five years when Dayton Moore took over as general manager...
Thursday, April 30, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Stanford University’s Eric Hanushek puts the value of quality teaching in stark economic terms. Place even a slightly above-averag...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Granted, there are creative lone wolves out there. But history and social psychology tell us that success stems far more often from one-to-one coll...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The ranch house became an integral part of the vocabulary of the U.S. housing market after World War II, when the demand for a single-family home reac...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Aristocratic and sophisticated, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, the wife of Theodore Roosevelt, ran the White House with a sure hand and figured prominentl...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
LaShonda Katrice Barnett’s debut novel—about a black female journalist escaping the early-1900s Jim Crow laws of the South a...
Sunday, April 19, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
Kansas mills, located literally in the breadbasket of America, produced an enormous quantity of flour in an era when women routinely baked their fa...