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 Election Insiders Tuesday, August 2, 2016 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Less than 100 days before Americans go to the polls, the latest installment of Dateline: Washington examines what has been one of the... Read More
Signature Event Election Insiders - RealClearPolitics’ Carl Cannon Tuesday, March 29, 2016 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person In the wake of the Super Tuesday primaries, the Library and the Truman Library Institute launch a new season of Dateline:... Read More
Signature Event Lady Bird Johnson Tuesday, November 10, 2015 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Lady Bird Johnson was no mere White House photo prop. The former Claudia Taylor once was described by husband Lyndon Johnson as “the brains a... Read More
Signature Event JazzAlice: An Adventure in Musical Wonderland Wednesday, October 28, 2015 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Kansas City jazz legend Angela Hagenbach leads a diverse ensemble cast in an original and unique retelling of the Lewis Carroll cl... Read More
Signature Event Looking at Alice with an Artist’s Eye - Peregrine Honig Wednesday, October 14, 2015 6:30pm Central Library In Person Internationally recognized Kansas City artist Peregrine Honig fixes her creative gaze on Lewis Carroll’s classic work of children’s l... Read More
Signature Event The Fairy Tale Explosion in Contemporary Media - Naphtali Faris Sunday, September 27, 2015 2:00pm Trails West Branch In Person Revamped, revised, reworked, and reimagined fairy tale characters and stories have seen an explosion in contemporary media from graphic novels to t... Read More
Signature Event Hollywood Wonderland: The Cinema and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Wednesday, September 23, 2015 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Beginning with a silent short released in 1903, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has intrigued both filmmakers and viewers. Lewis Carroll’... Read More