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 The Beaded Image Thursday, August 17, 2017 6:30pm Central Library In Person Kansas City-area artist Jessica Kincaid, who works from a palette of colorful beads rather than paint, discusses her work in an illus... Read More
Signature Event ‘To Make a Poet Black, and Bid Him Sing’ Tuesday, February 28, 2017 6:30pm Central Library In Person Glenn North, the inaugural poet laureate of Kansas City’s 18th & Vine Jazz District, discusses his work as an accompli... Read More
Signature Event Election Insiders 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 Election Insiders - RealClearPolitics’ Carl Cannon Tuesday, March 29, 2016 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person In the wake of the Super Tuesday primaries, the Library and the Truman Library Institute launch a new season of Dateline:... Read More
Signature Event Can Anyone Stop Her? 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.... Read More
Signature Event When Fashion Meets Power - Robin Givhan Thursday, December 5, 2013 6:30pm Central Library In Person Time magazine’s David Von Drehle and Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion critic Robin Givhan discuss When Fashion... Read More
Signature Event Covering Climate Change Thursday, November 14, 2013 6:30pm Central Library In Person Few journalists have studied the issue of global warming with the thoroughness of The New York Times’ Justin Gillis, who... Read More