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Sunday, May 22, 2022
2:00pm
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In Person
Sitting at the nation’s crossroads, Kansas C...
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Mark Twain said there are “bad actresses, fair actresses, good actresses, great actresses – and then there is Sarah Bernhardt.”
The leg...
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It was inevitable that the bawdy, alcohol-infused culture of 19th-century Kansas City would draw the ire of social reformers and prohibi...
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Even among the iconic frontiersmen of the American West, Jim Bridger stands out as larger than life.
Born in 1804 and orphaned at 1...
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Sunday, June 9, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
Founded as a port at the confluence of two great rivers, Kansas City has the waters of the Missouri running through its bloodstream—threading expressw...
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Sunday, February 10, 2019
2:00pm
Powerful imagery of protests and violence helped bring attention to America's civil rights movement. Black photographers of the era broadened the nati...
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Sunday, May 6, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice, local historian and blog...
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Sunday, November 12, 2017
2:00pm
Artist and filmmaker Brian Hawkins examines our state’s mostly east-side French Creole community – specifically its rich collection of folktale...
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Sunday, June 25, 2017
2:00pm
Infamous characters and sensational incidents abounded in the Ozarks immediately after the Civil War and well into the 20th century. The mining distri...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2016
6:30pm
America’s longest war began with an Apache raid and kidnapping of an Arizona rancher’s 12-year-old stepson in 1861. It would last more than a quarter...