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When Women Invented Television

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

March 24, 2021

Brides on the Santa Fe Trail

Joy L. Poole

March 14 15, 2021

Red Alert! Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge

Daniel R. Wildcat

March 10 11, 2021

Binding Us Together

Alvin Brooks, Quinton Lucas

February 23, 2021

A Legacy of Leadership

Emiel Cleaver

February 21 22, 2021

A Most Beautiful Thing

Arshay Cooper, Mary Mazzio, Sherman Whites

February 10, 2021

Racial Reckoning at The Star: ‘The Truth in Black and White’

Mike Fannin, Mará Rose Williams, Michele Watley, Nicole Sussner Rodgers, Toriano Porter

January 27 28, 2021

Seeing MAD: MAD Magazine's Humor and Legacy

Judith Yaross Lee, John Bird

January 26, 2021

Love, Loss and Endurance: A 9/11 Story of Resilience and Hope in an Age of Anxiety

Bill Tammeus

January 19 20, 2021

The Past, Present, and Future of Restaurants in KC

Kyo Yamanaka, Chrissy Nucum, Liz Cook

January 15 16, 2021

Secret Kansas City

Anne Kniggendorf

December 10, 2020

Truman Takes Over: ‘Like the Moon, Stars, and Planets Had Fallen on Me’

Gates Brown

December 8, 2020

Keys to the Kingdom: An Unfolding History of the Kansas City Chiefs

David Smale, Steve Wieberg

December 1 2, 2020

Making a Great City: The KC Spirit Playbook

Jeffrey Williams, Diane Binckley, Kyle Elliott, Jessica Oliphant

November 18, 2020

The National Road: Dispatches From a Changing America

Tom Zoellner, Melinda Henneberger

November 17, 2020

Old in Art School

Nell Painter, Kaite Stover

November 16 17, 2020

Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities

Andre M. Perry, Emmet Pierson Jr.

November 12, 2020

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

Tamara Payne

October 20, 2020

Black Bottom Saints

Alice Randall, Kaite Stover

October 19, 2020

The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science

Michael Strevens

October 13, 2020

Tom Pendergast and the Feud That Changed the Way States Choose Their Supreme Court Judges

Kenneth H. Winn

October 8, 2020

Ban These Books? Let’s Talk

Crystal Faris, Kaite Stover, Steven Woolfolk

September 30, 2020

The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Allen Rostron, Barb Shelly

September 23, 2020

Carville's Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice

Pam Fessler

September 22, 2020