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Tue, April 28, 2015 Season of Script-in-Hand Performances Concludes with a Mother's Day Confection, The Light in the Piazza
Tue, April 28, 2015 Sarah Chayes, a Former Advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Draws the Line from State-Sponsored Corruption to Global Turmoil
Thu, April 23, 2015 A Man, a Canoe, the Missouri River: Patrick Dobson Recounts A Transformative Journey Home from Montana to KC
Thu, April 23, 2015 From World War II to the Oval Office: KU's Theodore A. Wilson Examines The Impact of Wartime Service (and Now a Lack of It) on the Presidency
Wed, April 22, 2015 Library Observes 100th Anniversary of a Film Genius' Birth, Screening a Selection of Orson Welles' Movies in May
Mon, April 20, 2015 Stanford's Eric Hanushek Quantifies the Value of Effective Teachers And Urges: Reward Them Accordingly
Wed, April 15, 2015 From California to Johnson County and Beyond: Mary van Balgooy Discusses a Uniquely American Architectural Phenomenon, the Ranch House
Wed, April 15, 2015 Writer Joshua Wolf Shenk, Best-Selling Kansas Author Robert Day Discuss the Powers of Two - Boosting Creativity By Collaboration
Mon, April 13, 2015 KC-Born Author LaShonda Katrice Barnett Discusses Her Lauded Debut Novel, the History-Based Jam on the Vine
Fri, April 10, 2015 Historian Lewis L. Gould Spotlights Groundbreaking First Lady Edith Kermit Roosevelt
Tue, April 7, 2015 KC FilmFest Screens a Family Film Classic, Field of Dreams, at Plaza Branch
Tue, April 7, 2015 Collector Nancy Jo Leachman Looks at Kansas History as Writ on Cotton Flour Sacks
Tue, April 7, 2015 With $100,000 Grant, Library to Launch Financial Literacy Program Targeting Three Kansas City Neighborhoods
Fri, April 3, 2015 Author Jennifer Teege Discusses the Awful Reality of Her Nazi Heritage: My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me
Fri, April 3, 2015 National Review's Richard Brookhiser Examines the Men Who Made Lincoln: Founding Fathers Washington, Jefferson, Paine
Wed, April 1, 2015 Vietnam War Authority James H. Willbanks Re-examines Saigon's Fall 40 Years Ago This Month
Wed, April 1, 2015 Rep. Emanuel Cleaver to Salute District's High School Artists; One Student's Work Will Go to Nation's Capitol
Tue, March 31, 2015 Library Screens New Documentary Hot Type, A Look Inside the 150-Year-Old The Nation
Mon, March 30, 2015 Educator, Digital Library Pioneer John Palfrey Discusses Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google
Mon, March 30, 2015 Popular Podcaster Ashley Milne-Tyte Examines Women's Oft-Conflicted Relationship with the Workplace

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