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 Disciples: The World War II Missions of the CIA Directors Who Fought for Wild Bill Donovan Wednesday, February 10, 2016 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person They are the most famous and controversial directors in the history of the CIA – Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and William Casey – an... Read More
Signature Event A Defining Moment: The “Greatest Generation” in the White House Tuesday, May 5, 2015 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Among our “greatest generation” was a succession of U.S. presidents who were informed and defined by World War II. Harry Truman, who oversaw the en... Read More
Signature Event When Kansas City Went to War - Henry Bloch, Edward T. Matheny Jr., Bill Dunn Sr. Wednesday, March 25, 2015 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person ... 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