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Signature Event
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
His approval rating low and his own party disenchanted, Harry Truman had the look of a one-term president — unlikely to win a return to office &...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
6:30pm
Caitlin Doughty is out to change the way we deal with dying.
Founder of the Order of the Good Death, a web forum promoting the ope...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 30, 2014
6:30pm
Americans unfamiliar or perhaps unconcerned with the Islamic State — ISIS — snapped to attention with the group’s beheading of two journal...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
It has been a little more than 4½ years since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its controversial ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election C...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 23, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
In 1864, Confederate Gen. Sterling Price mounted a last-gasp raid into Missouri in hopes of capturing St. Louis and ultimately the state. The end of t...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
6:30pm
In the shadow of the Civil War, a circle of radicals in a rowdy New York tavern altered American society and helped set Walt Whitman on the path to po...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
6:30pm
Jason Pollen grew up in New York, and has lived and worked in Paris, London, Zurich, and Chennai, India. But the internationally reco...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 19, 2014
2:00pm
Not only is Kansas City home to world-class art museums, outstanding performing arts venues, and some of the planet’s best barbecue, it also boasts su...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 16, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
He grew up in a Philadelphia housing project, the son of an alcoholic, largely absent father and a loving but overworked mother. A high school dropout...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
It’s easy to think of World War I as a European war, but fierce fighting all over the Middle East brought about great changes on socio-economic, cultu...