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Signature Event
Monday, April 11, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech – delivered 70 years ago at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri – still resounds today. Most contemporar...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
6:30pm
Seventy years ago, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson called the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg “the greatest tribute power has e...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
6:30pm
Among the things Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants left behind when they fled Kandahar after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was a cache of...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
6:30pm
Until the late 18th century, Shakespeare’s works were known in America only on the page – and not the stage. Felicia Hardison Londré,...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 20, 2016
2:00pm
Efforts to combat blight and “renew” Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, took off after the end of World War II, but the results were mixe...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 17, 2016
6:30pm
The three artists behind the new exhibition Measured Space...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Educators and researchers have long recognized the importance of mastering reading by the end of third grade. Students falling short often falter in l...
Signature Event
Monday, March 14, 2016
6:30pm
For two years, Harvard University social sciences professor Matthew Desmond embedded himself in two poor neighborhoods in Milwaukee,...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 10, 2016
6:30pm
Cote Smith sets his debut novel in the prison town of Leavenworth, Kansas, drawing from his experiences growing up there....
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
The latest installment of Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III spotlights two of the Midwest’s greatest artists, Kansas City’s Thomas...