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Signature Event
Thursday, January 19, 2017
6:30pm
The Islamic State, or ISIS, refers to its enemies as Roman crusaders, and the notion of the Western world imposing its will on the Middle East is ofte...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 15, 2017
2:00pm
Decades before women in the U.S. could vote, hold public positions, or choose from a full range of occupations, young women and girls in the Kansas Ci...
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Emanuel Leutze’s iconic painting of George Washington crossing the icy Delaware River on Christmas night 1776 might have been a bit dramatized (...
Signature Event
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
6:30pm
The date that President Franklin Roosevelt said “will live in infamy” – December 7, 1941 – indeed endures as an American milepost.
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Signature Event
Monday, December 5, 2016
6:30pm
Being black today means trying to make sense of unarmed men of color dying at the hands of police, of a country professing enlightenment while struggl...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 4, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
As it did throughout America, World War II affected every facet of life in Franklin County, Kansas, from 1941-45. The experience there was captured by...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 20, 2016
2:00pm
While some cities owe their existence to lumber, oil, or steel, Kansas City is arguably – or perhaps not so arguably – built on food.
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Signature Event
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
6:30pm
Sixty-one years after the brutal murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till helped ignite the civil rights movement, cable television network HBO has begun wor...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 12, 2016
7:30pm
Mozart, it turns out, could turn a phrase as well as a musical score. In one of many letters to his wife Constanze – this one bemoaning his mounting d...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 10, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Photographer Yunghi Kim has trained her lens on some of the world’s most notable events of the past three decades, including the raci...