North-East Library opens late at noon on Friday, June 28.
Signature Event
Online
How close are we to ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment? The question hangs anew over Congress. And the courts. Erica Bens...
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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...
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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...
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
On the 150th anniversary of William Clarke Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Tony R. Mullis of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff Co...
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Sunday, August 18, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
William Quantrill’s August 21, 1863 Confederate raid on Lawrence, Kansas, left nearly 200 men and boys dead and the city in flames. Film expert...
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Sunday, May 5, 2013
2:00pm
This postcard tour of a bygone era offers views of Independence Boulevard (Kansas City’s first boulevard) and the rugged beauty of the city’s only urb...
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Sunday, April 28, 2013
2:00pm
Named for a prominent turn-of-the-century business mogul, the area around Jacob Loose Park is still one of Kansas City’s most beautiful areas largely...
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Sunday, April 14, 2013
2:00pm
The lake in Troost Park was once an encampment used by Mormons migrating to Independence. Linked together by Linwood Boulevard and The Paseo, Kansas C...
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Sunday, April 7, 2013
2:00pm
Taking the old Independence Road through the eastern environs of Kansas City toward Independence, it’s easy to miss some of Kansas City’s richest hist...