Signature Event Strictly Speaking: Equal Rights Should Have No Deadline Saturday, August 29, 2020 10:00am 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 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 Public Conversation with David Hughes Thursday, February 9, 2017 6:30pm Central Library The vitality of Kansas City’s arts community today traces back, in part, to David Hughes’ founding of the Charlotte Street Foundation... Read More
Signature Event Election Insiders - Mike Allen 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 A Public Conversation with Cliff Illig Thursday, July 14, 2016 6:30pm Central Library 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
Signature Event Election Insiders - RealClearPolitics’ Carl Cannon Tuesday, March 29, 2016 6:30pm Plaza Branch This event was originally scheduled for January but was rescheduled due to inclement weather in the Washington D.C. area... Read More
Signature Event A Conversation with Bill Zahner Wednesday, February 4, 2015 6:30pm Central Library Bill Zahner made a tough call shortly after taking charge of the family business in the late 1970s, shifting the focus of the A. Zahn... Read More
Signature Event Can Anyone Stop Her? - Carl Cannon Wednesday, April 9, 2014 6:30pm Central Library In Person Remember Barack Obama’s subtle 2008 putdown of Hillary Clinton, when he called her “likable enough?” Maybe the joke is on him. No... Read More
Signature Event When Fashion Meets Power - Robin Givhan Thursday, December 5, 2013 6:30pm Central Library Time magazine’s David Von Drehle and Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion critic Robin Givhan discuss When Fashion... Read More