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 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 Aaron Sorkin’s A Few Good Men Monday, November 11, 2019 6:30pm Plaza Branch Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) commemorates Veterans Day with a script-in-hand reading of Aaron Sorkin’s sizzl... Read More
Signature Event A Child's Christmas in Wales Sunday, December 9, 2018 2:00pm Central Library A little more than two weeks before Christmas, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) delivers two script-i... Read More
Signature Event Mister Roberts Monday, November 12, 2018 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Commemorating Veterans Day, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) deliver a script-in-hand performance of... 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 perish... 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 Public historians Diane Eickhoff and Aaron Barnhart recall how hundreds of women defied cultural norms of the time t... Read More
Signature Event Studs Terkel's Working Monday, September 10, 2018 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person In a script-in-hand performance commemorating Labor Day, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) read select... 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