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 Beaded Image Thursday, August 17, 2017 6:30pm Central Library In Person Kansas City-area artist Jessica Kincaid, who works from a palette of colorful beads rather than paint, discusses her work in an illus... Read More
Signature Event ‘To Make a Poet Black, and Bid Him Sing’ Tuesday, February 28, 2017 6:30pm Central Library In Person Glenn North, the inaugural poet laureate of Kansas City’s 18th & Vine Jazz District, discusses his work as an accompli... Read More
Signature Event Star Trek: First Contact (1996, PG) Saturday, September 10, 2016 1:30pm Central Library In Person Fifty years ago this month, on September 8, 1966, NBC launched a new science-fiction television series that would become one of the most revered franc... 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 Edith Kermit Roosevelt Wednesday, April 22, 2015 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Aristocratic and sophisticated, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, the wife of Theodore Roosevelt, ran the White House with a sure hand and figured prominentl... Read More
Signature Event Betty Ford Wednesday, June 19, 2013 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Betty Ford is known for her battles with breast cancer and substance abuse. But perhaps even more than these struggles, says biograph... Read More
Signature Event Martha Jefferson Randolph Wednesday, June 5, 2013 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person As the oldest and favorite daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph was well educated, known on two continents... Read More