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Signature Event
Saturday, October 10, 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
Sunday, September 27, 2015
2:00pm
Two metro-area landmarks, the stainless steel-spired Temple and the domed Auditorium, accentuate the world headquarters of the Community of Christ in...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 24, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Like so many others in the late 1930s, the young black Americans who would become known as the Tuskegee Airmen were eager for military service as the...
Signature Event
Saturday, September 12, 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
Thursday, September 10, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Historians have long pointed to the devastation of smallpox and other European-introduced diseases in tracing the demise of North America’s indigenous...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 20, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City’s ad-industry history runs deep, featuring a host of agencies representing major brands including Guy’s Potato Chips and the McDonald’s Ha...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 16, 2015
2:00pm
Journalist and local historian Cindy Higgins presents an illustrated talk about the brewers and breweries of early Kansas, their role in fostering a s...
Signature Event
Saturday, August 8, 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, August 5, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
History books cast William Clark as a wilderness-braving, 1800s action hero, a partner with Meriwether Lewis in the nearly two-and-a-half-year expl...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 30, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Author Jack Cashill discusses his new book, Scarlet Letters: The Ever Increasing Intolerance of the Cult of Liberalism...