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Signature Event
Sunday, May 6, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice, local historian and blog...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
6:30pm
As Kansas City’s 2018 Art in the Loop Project: KC Plays! prepares to open, a number of the participating artists, dancers, musicians,...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 29, 2018
2:00pm
Historian Bill Worley discusses the arrival and settlement of French traders in what’s now Kansas City’s West Bottoms area – but then was India...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 19, 2018
6:30pm
In the keynote address for the Quindaro Symposium, held April 19-21 in Kansas City, Kansas, historian Quintard Taylor exp...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 12, 2018
6:30pm
Jonathan Abel of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College sets the record straight on one of the more inspiring – but somewhat mythicized – cha...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his book The First Infantry Division and the U.S. Army Transformed: Road to Victory in Desert Storm, 1970-1991, ret...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
How do great books get written? Author and noted created writing teacher Margot Livesey delves into the inner workings of fiction,...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Florida State University’s Wayne Wiegand, widely considered the “dean of American library historians,” examines an overlooked chapter in our na...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
New York-area pianist/vocalist John Bauers portrays legendary lyricist Johnny Mercer (“One More for My Baby,” “Moon River,” “Days of Wine and Roses”),...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Hip-hop is now America’s most popular music genre, supplanting rock. In a discussion of his new book, Davidson College sociologist Joseph Ewoodzie exa...