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 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 Primary Perspectives: The Politicos’ Take on KC’s 2015 Elections Wednesday, March 18, 2015 6:30pm Central Library In Person Kansas Citians go to the polls in April and June to elect a mayor and 12 city council members who will direct the city for the next four years. Wha... Read More
Signature Event Primary Perspectives: The Administrators’ Take on KC’s 2015 Elections Wednesday, February 18, 2015 6:30pm Central Library In Person Kansas Citians go to the polls in April and June to elect a mayor and 12 city council members who will direct the city for the next four years. Wha... Read More
Signature Event The Missouri-Kansas Economic Border War Thursday, October 17, 2013 6:30pm Central Library In Person Competition between Kansas and Missouri goes back to the years before the Civil War, when Jayhawkers and “border ruffians” battled over the issue of s... Read More
Signature Event The Sack of Lawrence and the Guerrilla War Wednesday, August 21, 2013 6:30pm Central Library In Person On the 150th anniversary of William Clarke Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Tony R. Mullis of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff... Read More
Signature Event Quantrill in the Movies: John Tibbetts Sunday, August 18, 2013 2:00pm Central Library In Person William Quantrill’s August 21, 1863 Confederate raid on Lawrence, Kansas, left nearly 200 men and boys dead and the city in flames. Film expert... Read More