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Signature Event
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
6:30pm
Alexander von Humboldt was, in his time, one of the most interesting men in the world.
The 19th-century explorer and naturalist climbed volcanoes...
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Thursday, May 5, 2016
6:30pm
John Hay and Samuel Clemens grew up some 50 miles apart along the Mississippi River and became acquainted early in their respective careers – Hay as p...
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Wednesday, May 11, 2016
6:30pm
Incentives of various types are widely offered to encourage and promote economic development – a point of competition and controversy in a years-long...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2016
6:30pm
When her daughter was born nearly four months premature, Deanna Fei confronted a shattering question: Had she delivered a child or lo...
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Saturday, July 30, 2016
2:00pm
Jane Austen remains famous today for Pride and Prejudice and other novels in which she reflects on the life of the British land gentry at the end of t...
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Thursday, August 11, 2016
6:30pm
It's not just bullies in the schoolyard that should worry us. Charles Derber and Yale Magrass point to a larger, mor...
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Thursday, August 18, 2016
6:30pm
Kansas City remembers Charles O. Finley, the unconventional owner of baseball’s Athletics when they made their home here in the ’60s, for parading a m...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2016
6:30pm
America’s longest war began with an Apache raid and kidnapping of an Arizona rancher’s 12-year-old stepson in 1861. It would last more than a quarter...
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Monday, September 26, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
The Salem Witch Trials remain one of the more astonishing chapters in American history. The Massachusetts village was gripped in hysteria in the late...
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Thursday, September 15, 2016
6:30pm
This event has been canceled at the speaker’s request. We will make every effort to notify interested persons when and i...