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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
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Rightly or wrongly—and author Robert E. Litan insists it’s wrongly—the public’s esteem for economists plunged in the w...
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
Thursday, September 17, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The Soviet Union’s 1957 launch of Sputnik, the world’s first satellite, was a critical Cold War moment for Dwight D. Eisenhower. What he called “a...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Few literary works are more quoted, translated, and adapted than Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This year marks the sesqui...
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
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
An estimated 225,000 adults in Kansas City function at the lowest literacy level, denied some of the simplest and most important moments in life be...
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
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Bestselling author and former Kansas City Star columnist Joe Posnanski discusses his new book about the most remarkable r...