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 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 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
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