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Signature Event
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
French Emperor and military commander Napoleon Bonaparte continues to fascinate, even centuries after his death. Jonathan Abel, associate professor of...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 17, 2023
2:00pm
Online
In Person
In a discussion drawing from his new book The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960 and After, Lucas Hilderbrand of the U...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
In the latest installment of the Library’s Turning Points series in partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, military histori...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 2, 2023
2:00pm
Online
Tapping new resources and research tools, local historian Michael Sweeney has produced the first new historical assessment in 20 year...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 21, 2023
2:00pm
Online
West Bottoms Whiskey Co. founder Alex Lindsey examines...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 22, 2022
2:00pm
Online
In Person
Sitting at the nation’s crossroads, Kansas C...
Signature Event
Online
In Person
There was no greater boon to Kansas City’s early development than the opening of the Hannibal Bridge in 1869. Designed by civil engineer Octave Chanut...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 24, 2022
2:00pm
Online
In Person
The infamous Missouri Executive Order 44 – known as the Extermination Ord...
Signature Event
Online
Before the Lewis and Clark Expedition arrived at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers in 1804 and a young St. Louis couple, Francois and B...
Signature Event
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Carmaletta Williams, chief executive officer of the Black Archives of Mid-America, discusses her work with the Equal Justice Initiati...