Signature Event The Shock and Awe of Sarah Bernhardt in Kansas City Sunday, November 21, 2021 3:00pm Mark Twain said there are “bad actresses, fair actresses, good actresses, great actresses – and then there is Sarah Bernhardt.” The leg... Read More
Signature Event Steamboat Disasters of the Lower Missouri River Sunday, October 31, 2021 3:00pm Online The lower Missouri River was a veritable steamboat graveyard in the 19th century as more than 300 vessels ended up at the bottom of the Big Muddy.... Read More
Signature Event The Summer With the Blues Sunday, August 8, 2021 3:00pm There are times in life that alter a person’s view of the world. For Ed FitzGerald, it was the summer of 1950 when, as a Catholic boy g... Read More
Signature Event Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue Sunday, July 25, 2021 3:00pm The U.S. barbecue capitals of Memphis, Texas, the Carolinas and, of course, Kansas City bring unique techniques, flavors, and traditions to slow-sm... Read More
Signature Event From Wettest Block to Wickedest City Sunday, June 6, 2021 3:00pm Online It was inevitable that the bawdy, alcohol-infused culture of 19th-century Kansas City would draw the ire of social reformers and prohibi... Read More
Signature Event Jim Bridger: Trailblazer of the American West Sunday, May 16, 2021 3:00pm Even among the iconic frontiersmen of the American West, Jim Bridger stands out as larger than life. Born in 1804 and orphaned at 1... Read More
Signature Event Brides on the Santa Fe Trail Sunday, March 14, 2021 3:00pm Online In commemoration of the bicentennial anniversary of the Santa Fe Trail, historian Joy L. Poole examines the stories of five wives who... Read More
Signature Event A Legacy of Leadership Sunday, February 21, 2021 3:00pm Online While his story is not widely known, Kansas City civil rights leader Leon M. Jordan was among the most influential African Americans in Missou... Read More
Signature Event The Dizzy and Daffy Dean Barnstorming Tour: Race, Media, and America's National Pastime Sunday, February 9, 2020 2:00pm Central Library In Person In 1934, brothers Dizzy and Daffy Dean were stars of Major League Baseball’s regular season and World Series. Following their St. Louis Cardinals’... Read More
Signature Event Mansion on a Hill: The Story of The Willows Maternity Sanitarium and the Adoption Hub of America Sunday, January 5, 2020 2:00pm Central Library In Person Women who were pregnant and unmarried in the early 1900s faced limited options and societal scorn. Many chose, or were sent, to deliver their babie... Read More