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Signature Event
Thursday, September 20, 2012
6:30pm
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Thomas Jefferson, as portrayed by Patri...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
6:30pm
The Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862 is the bloodiest day in American military history. Now, exactly 150 years later, a panel of historians di...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 16, 2012
2:00pm
In 1911 art-minded Missourians hired the nation’s leading artists to decorate the new Missouri statehouse, and the works they created were considered...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
6:30pm
Historian Jim Denny examines the Battle of Island Mound, the first Civil War battle in which African-American soldiers engaged in com...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 9, 2012
2:00pm
The 1940 U.S. Census revealed that Missouri had 3.8 million residents, there were 1.8 million Kansans, and Kansas City, Missouri, was home to 400,000...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 6, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Cornell University historian Fredrik Logevall discusses the origins of America’s least popular war, beginning with the 1919 Versaille...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 30, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Seemingly austere and reportedly passive in the face of a national economic calamity, Herbert Hoover is somewhat of a political orphan. But biographer...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 26, 2012
2:00pm
Civil War battlefields stubbornly conceal their secrets and their archaeology remains a buried, largely untapped source of historical information....
Signature Event
Thursday, August 23, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Margot McMillen, author of The Golden Lane, explores how a protest by thousands of women at the 1916 Democratic National Con...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with William Clarke Quantrill, portrayed by...