Signature Event Community Remembrance Project Sunday, February 6, 2022 3:00pm Online Carmaletta Williams, chief executive officer of the Black Archives of Mid-America, discusses her work with the Equal Justice Initiati... Read More
Signature Event The Last Liberal Republican Monday, December 6, 2021 6:30pm Online Richard Nixon lamented that he would be remembered only for Watergate and warming relations with China. He wasn’t wrong – about the wreckage of Wat... Read More
Signature Event The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783 Thursday, November 11, 2021 6:30pm Online Pulitzer-Prize winning author Joseph J. Ellis and the Library’s Steve Woolfolk discuss his newest book, The Cause... Read More
Signature Event The Presidency of George W. Bush Tuesday, November 9, 2021 6:30pm Online Have we been too hard on George W. Bush? Drawing in part from a raft of newly available archival records, noted historian... Read More
Signature Event Steamboat Disasters of the Lower Missouri River Sunday, October 31, 2021 3:00pm Online The lower Missouri River was a veritable steamboat graveyard in the 19th century as more than 300 vessels ended up at the bottom of the Big Muddy.... Read More
Signature Event Sharice’s Big Voice Monday, October 11, 2021 6:30pm Online Rep. Sharice Davis, in her second precedent-setting term in the U.S. House from Kansas’ 3rd District, discusses her new picture-book... Read More
Signature Event The Summer With the Blues Sunday, August 8, 2021 3:00pm Online There are times in life that alter a person’s view of the world. For Ed FitzGerald, it was the summer of 1950 when, as a Catholic boy g... Read More
Signature Event Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue Sunday, July 25, 2021 3:00pm The U.S. barbecue capitals of Memphis, Texas, the Carolinas and, of course, Kansas City bring unique techniques, flavors, and traditions to slow-sm... Read More
Signature Event Why KC Should Want to Be More Walkable – and How It Can Be Tuesday, June 22, 2021 12:00pm Online Cities are made to be walked – or should be, given the economic, environmental, and medical benefits. How far is Kansas City from... Read More
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