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Case for a Pardon: The Pete O’Neal Story

Friday, August 23, 2013 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Former Kansas City Star columnist Steve Penn joins U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver II for a discussi...

Refuge Denied: The St. Louis’ Passengers and the Holocaust

Thursday, August 22, 2013 6:30pm

Plaza Branch

In Person

In 1937 the German ocean liner St. Louis set sail from Hamburg to Cuba. Aboard were nearly 1,000 Jews hoping to escape the Nazis. But midw...

The Sack of Lawrence and the Guerrilla War

Wednesday, August 21, 2013 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

On the 150th anniversary of William Clarke Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Tony R. Mullis of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff...

The Future of Space Exploration and the Sale of The Washington Post : Joel Achenbach

Tuesday, August 20, 2013 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

The August Dateline: Washington event at the Kansas City Public Library was supposed to be about outer space. Just outer space. Host...

Quantrill in the Movies: John Tibbetts

Sunday, August 18, 2013 2:00pm

Central Library

In Person

William Quantrill’s August 21, 1863 Confederate raid on Lawrence, Kansas, left nearly 200 men and boys dead and the city in flames. Film expert...

Guerrillas in Our Midst

August 18, 2013 - December 29, 2013

Central Library

Before and during the Civil War, Confederate guerrillas – men like William Clarke Quantrill, “Bloody Bill” Anderson, and Frank and Jesse James – battl...

The Lost Cause: The Trials of Frank and Jesse James

Thursday, August 15, 2013 6:30pm

Plaza Branch

In Person

The 1869 killing of a bank cashier in Gallatin, Missouri, has long been considered the first in a long line of robberies by Jesse and Frank James. But...

The First National Bank Building

Sunday, August 11, 2013 2:00pm

Plaza Branch

In Person

Architect Todd Achelpohl of infrastructure solutions firm HNTB and Jonathan Kemper, president of the Kansas City...

Unfiltered Label Design

Thursday, August 8, 2013 6:30pm

Plaza Branch

In Person

Marketing studies have shown that, like other consumers, beer drinkers often make purchases based not just on taste, but often on the packaging an...

Line in the Sand

Tuesday, August 6, 2013 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Following the conclusion of the Mexican-American War in 1848, the border between the two countries remained in flux, a flexible barrier that restricte...

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