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Signature Event
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
The first vice president to occupy the White House after the death of the incumbent, John Tyler was derided by critics as “His Accidency.” Yet histori...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
8:30pm
In Person
Steven Casey discusses his new book Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion in the United St...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) is among the most overlooked presidents in U.S. history even though his progressive values helped shape the course of th...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Among our “greatest generation” was a succession of U.S. presidents who were informed and defined by World War II. Harry Truman, who oversaw the end o...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The role of women during World War II is little known, obscured by attention to the men who fought and led. But women were essential to the outcome. I...
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Monday, March 26, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Frustrated with the slow pace of civil rights reforms and outraged at the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., protesters in Kansas City took to t...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 26, 2018
6:30pm
Historian Joel Rhodes, who led research for the Library exhibit It Finally Happened Here: The Kansas City Riot, April 9-12, 1968...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In an illustrated discussion marking the launch of his book Kansas City Houses 1885–1938, local scholar Michael C. K...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
6:30pm
University of South Carolina scholar F.K. Clementi examines the origins of the Holocaust, and looks beyond the rise of Adolf Hitler and German...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
The University of Kansas’ John Tibbetts draws from 35 years of conversations with some of the world’s finest musicians in discussing...