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 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 Primary Perspectives: The Politicos’ Take on KC’s 2015 Elections Wednesday, March 18, 2015 6:30pm Central Library In Person Kansas Citians go to the polls in April and June to elect a mayor and 12 city council members who will direct the city for the next four years. Wha... Read More
Signature Event Primary Perspectives: The Administrators’ Take on KC’s 2015 Elections Wednesday, February 18, 2015 6:30pm Central Library In Person Kansas Citians go to the polls in April and June to elect a mayor and 12 city council members who will direct the city for the next four years. Wha... 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 Sunday, October 12, 2014 2:00pm Plaza Branch In Person Before the birth of Kansas City jazz, the musical community served up ragtime and blues. In 1917, the military-themed anthem “Over There” became a... 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 spies collaborate to unleash a campaign of terror upon America at the start of World War I? In Dark Inva... Read More