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Signature Event
Sunday, May 17, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
By the time of Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, the land and people of western Missouri had suffered as much as any during the Civil War. The...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 9, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
The Westport Historical Society Speaker Series seeks to promote and foster public interest in and preserve the significance of local history....
Signature Event
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 end o...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
6:30pm
Aristocratic and sophisticated, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, the wife of Theodore Roosevelt, ran the White House with a sure hand and figured prominently i...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 19, 2015
2:00pm
Kansas mills, located literally in the breadbasket of America, produced an enormous quantity of flour in an era when women routinely baked their famil...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
6:30pm
For Abraham Lincoln, the road to the future always began in the past – with the Founding Fathers, who inspired him to take up public life, showed him...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 11, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
The Westport Historical Society Speaker Series seeks to promote and foster public interest in and preserve the significance of local history....
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
6:30pm
On the morning of May 3, 1863, on the cusp of one of the most remarkable tactical battlefield victories in American military history, Gen. Robert E. L...
Signature Event
Saturday, March 28, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
The Westport Historical Society Speaker Series seeks to promote and foster public interest in and preserve the significance of local history....
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
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