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 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 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 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 The First World War in the Middle East - Kristian Coates Ulrichsen Wednesday, October 15, 2014 6:30pm Central Library In Person It’s easy to think of World War I as a European war, but fierce fighting all over the Middle East brought about great changes on socio-economic, cu... Read More
Signature Event Great Songs of WWI - Michael Lasser Sunday, October 12, 2014 2:00pm Plaza Branch Before the birth of Kansas... Read More
Signature Event Dark Invasion 1915: Germany’s Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America Wednesday, October 8, 2014 6:30pm Central Library In Person What happens when German sp... Read More
Signature Event Stubby the War Dog: The True Story of World War I’s Bravest Dog - Ann Bausum Friday, October 3, 2014 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Award-winning author Ann Bausum tells a true story of a terrier that wandered onto an Army training field, befriending Pvt. James Robert Conroy and ac... Read More