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 A Fierce Glory: Antietam - The Desperate Battle that Saved Lincoln and Doomed Slavery Thursday, November 1, 2018 6:30pm Central Library In Person There remains a haunting stillness over the grounds around Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland, where 3,650 Union and Confederate soldiers per... Read More
Signature Event If It Looks Like a Man: Gender Identity, Female Soldiers, and 'Lady Bushwhackers' in the Civil War Sunday, September 16, 2018 2:00pm Central Library In Person Public historians Diane Eickhoff and Aaron Barnhart recall how hundreds of women defied cultural norms of the time t... Read More
Signature Event Quindaro: The Coming of Freedom in the Decade of Civil War Thursday, April 19, 2018 6:30pm Central Library In Person In the keynote address for the Quindaro Symposium, held April 19-21 in Kansas City, Kansas, historian Quintard Taylor exp... Read More
Signature Event Lincoln and the Abolitionists Wednesday, September 13, 2017 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that... Read More
Signature Event The Buffalo Soldiers: Their Epic Story and Major Campaigns Sunday, February 12, 2017 2:00pm Central Library In Person African-Americans have served proudly in every great American war, including the Civil War, where their verve and valor led to the establishment of... Read More
Signature Event A Public Conversation with David Hughes Thursday, February 9, 2017 6:30pm Central Library In Person The vitality of Kansas City’s arts community today traces back, in part, to David Hughes’ founding of the Charlotte Street Foundat... Read More
Signature Event A Public Conversation with Cliff Illig Thursday, July 14, 2016 6:30pm Central Library In Person One of Kansas City’s greatest entrepreneurial success stories traces back to a picnic table in Loose Park in the late 1970s, when Cliff Illig... Read More