Signature Event From Wettest Block to Wickedest City Sunday, June 6, 2021 3:00pm Online It was inevitable that the bawdy, alcohol-infused culture of 19th-century Kansas City would draw the ire of social reformers and prohibi... Read More
Signature Event Jim Bridger: Trailblazer of the American West Sunday, May 16, 2021 3:00pm Online Even among the iconic frontiersmen of the American West, Jim Bridger stands out as larger than life. Born in 1804 and orphaned at 1... Read More
Signature Event A River in the City of Fountains Sunday, June 9, 2019 2:00pm Central Library 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 expre... Read More
Signature Event Benevolence, Moral Reform, Equality: Women's Activism in Kansas City Sunday, October 21, 2018 2:00pm Central Library In Person In a discussion of his new book Benevolence, Moral Reform, Equality: Women’s Activism in Kansas City, 1870 to 1940, author... Read More
Signature Event Prohibition in Kansas City Sunday, May 6, 2018 2:00pm Central Library In Person In a discussion of his new book Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice, local historian and blog... Read More
Signature Event For All Children Everywhere Sunday, January 28, 2018 2:00pm Central Library In Person In a discussion of his book For All Children Everywhere, a comprehensive history of Kansas City’s renowned Children’s Mercy... Read More
Signature Event Notorious Incidents of the Ozarks Sunday, June 25, 2017 2:00pm Central Library In Person Infamous characters and sensational incidents abounded in the Ozarks immediately after the Civil War and well into the 20th century. The mining dis... Read More
Signature Event Kansas City: A Food Biography Sunday, November 20, 2016 2:00pm Central Library In Person While some cities owe their existence to lumber, oil, or steel, Kansas City is arguably – or perhaps not so arguably – built on food. From its... Read More
Signature Event The Apache Wars Wednesday, August 31, 2016 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person 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 quart... Read More
Signature Event The Vanishing Messiah: The Life and Resurrections of Francis Schlatter - David Wetzel Sunday, August 21, 2016 2:00pm Central Library In Person Faith healer? Fraud? Or both? The enigma that was Francis Schlatter emerged in the American West in the late 1800s. In looks, he resemble... Read More