Signature Event Community Remembrance Project Sunday, February 6, 2022 3:00pm Online Carmaletta Williams, chief executive officer of the Black Archives of Mid-America, discusses her work with the Equal Justice Initiati... Read More
Signature Event Hollywood vs. History: The Man Who Would Be King Monday, January 24, 2022 6:00pm Plaza Branch Online The format of this event has been changed to virtual only. Watch online at yout... Read More
Signature Event The Shock and Awe of Sarah Bernhardt in Kansas City Sunday, November 21, 2021 3:00pm Online Mark Twain said there are “bad actresses, fair actresses, good actresses, great actresses – and then there is Sarah Bernhardt.” The legendary F... 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 Online 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 The Donut King Wednesday, May 19, 2021 6:00pm Online Walk into one of the hundreds of donut shops in Southern California – the land of glitz also happens to be the country’s donut capital – and odds a... 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 Philly D.A Thursday, April 22, 2021 8:00pm The city of Philadelphia reduced the size of the local jail population by nearly half from 2015 to 2020, reflecting efforts by District Attorney&nb... Read More