Signature Event Strictly Speaking: Equal Rights Should Have No Deadline Saturday, August 29, 2020 10:00am Online How close are we to ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment? The question hangs anew over Congress. And the courts. Erica Bens... Read More
Signature Event Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener Thursday, August 27, 2020 6:30pm Online At 23, while serving as the youngest school principal in the state, Alice Chenoweth was excoriated in Ohio’s newspapers in 1876 for having an affai... Read More
Signature Event Qualified Rights: Women’s Suffrage, Citizenship, and the 19th Amendment Reconsidered Tuesday, August 18, 2020 6:30pm Online One hundred years ago this month, women won their fight for the right to vote – though not all of them. Black women, who had pleaded as passionatel... Read More
Signature Event The Voices of Heaven - Maija Rhee Devine Wednesday, March 5, 2014 6:30pm Central Library In Person Angela Elam of New Letters on the Air, aired locally on KCUR 89.3 FM, holds a public conversation with author and Indepen... Read More
Signature Event A Conversation with Patrick Rosal Tuesday, November 12, 2013 6:30pm Central Library In Person Patrick Rosal’s poetry, writes one critic, “skillfully navigates between despair and love, between violence and music, between los... Read More
Signature Event The Trouble Ball - Martin Espada Tuesday, October 22, 2013 6:30pm Central Library In Person Martin Espada, widely recognized as “the Latino poet of his generation,” joins Angela Elam from New Letters on t... Read More
Signature Event Greetings from Historic Northeast Sunday, May 5, 2013 2:00pm North-East Branch In Person This postcard tour of a bygone era offers views of Independence Boulevard (Kansas City’s first boulevard) and the rugged beauty of the city’s only... Read More
Signature Event Greetings from Brookside and Waldo Sunday, April 28, 2013 2:00pm Waldo Branch In Person Named for a prominent turn-of-the-century business mogul, the area around Jacob Loose Park is still one of Kansas City’s most beautiful areas large... Read More
Signature Event Greetings from Eastside Kansas City Sunday, April 14, 2013 2:00pm Lucile H. Bluford Branch In Person The lake in Troost Park was once an encampment used by Mormons migrating to Independence. Linked together by Linwood Boulevard and The Paseo, Kansas C... Read More
Signature Event Greetings from Independence Sunday, April 7, 2013 2:00pm Trails West Branch In Person Taking the old Independence Road through the eastern environs of Kansas City toward Independence, it’s easy to miss some of Kansas City’s richest h... Read More