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Signature Event
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
6:30pm
Author Greg Weiner maintains that today’s politically polarized America badly misses Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the former presidential...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 14, 2016
1:00pm
In Person
Islamism – or political Islam, the movement to infuse Islam in all areas of life – is hardly a 21st century phenomenon. Winston S. Churchill was a...
Signature Event
Saturday, February 13, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
In conjunction with this year's Adult Winter Reading Program theme of Shakespeare (a Winter's Tale Spin), the Westport Branch Library presents an afte...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 11, 2016
6:30pm
Abraham Lincoln and William Shakespeare rose to prominence centuries and continents apart. But one of America’s greatest presidents felt a real connec...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 7, 2016
2:00pm
Join Bernard Norcott-Mahany and friends for an afternoon of stories and songs featuring William Shakespeare and his plays. Recognized...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
While perceived as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence existed everywhere in the decades following the Civil War – including Kansas and t...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 28, 2016
6:30pm
August Bondi remains a compelling figure in Kansas history, a Jewish immigrant from Austria who fought alongside anti-slavery crusader John Brown and...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 24, 2016
2:00pm
Was the December 29, 1890, massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, an act of war? U.S. government officials deemed it such. Or was the killing of some...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 7, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
College graduates last May held an unenviable distinction: They left school deeper in debt than any class before them. Those who’d taken out studen...
Signature Event
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
6:30pm
As Jen Mann notes, her nationally popular blog is called "People I Want to Punch in the Throat" and not "Rainbows and Unicorns." So i...