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 George H.W. Bush: Life to the Fullest Wednesday, June 26, 2019 6:30pm Central Library In Person As chief of staff to former President George H.W. Bush for 25 years, Jean Becker oversaw everything from the opening of his presid... Read More
Signature Event President McKinley: Architect of the American Century Thursday, December 7, 2017 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person In a discussion of his new book President McKinley: Architect of the American Century, acclaimed historian Robert Merry gives 2... Read More
Signature Event Lincoln and the Abolitionists Wednesday, September 13, 2017 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that... 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 Lincoln: Wrestling with His Angel, 1849-1856 Saturday, June 3, 2017 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Sidney Blumenthal, a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton and later an advisor to Hillary Clinton, continues to offer a fresh... Read More
Signature Event Ike and McCarthy Wednesday, April 5, 2017 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy was three years into his incendiary search for Communists when Dwight Eisenhower assumed the presidency in 1953. Ike... 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