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Signature Event
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
6:30pm
Lyndon Johnson had the misfortune of following the handsome, martyred John F. Kennedy into the White House and then miring his country in
Vietnam....
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
6:30pm
This year’s election stakes are high, as always. But perhaps no presidential vote in U.S. history was more consequential than that of 1860.
The na...
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Saturday, June 3, 2017
6:30pm
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Sidney Blumenthal, a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton and later an advisor to Hillary Clinton, continues to offer a fresh vie...
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Wednesday, September 13, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...
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Thursday, December 7, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book President McKinley: Architect of the American Century, acclaimed historian Robert Merry gives 2...
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Wednesday, April 5, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy was three years into his incendiary search for Communists when Dwight Eisenhower assumed the presidency in 1953. Ike...
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Friday, March 1, 2024
5:30pm
In Person
We never know if March will come in like a lion and go out like a lamb or the other way around. Amid this unpredictability, learn about how rain cloud...
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Friday, March 8, 2024
5:30pm
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Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. We’ll make shamrock sun catchers out of contact paper and tissue and leprechauns out of paper plates. Recommen...
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Friday, March 15, 2024
5:30pm
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Join Kansas City children’s book author and illustrator Jill McDonald for a discussion of her books. Children can then create their own art using McD...
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Friday, March 22, 2024
5:30pm
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Use science to explore the colors of the rainbow. Build spectroscopes, make a rainbow grow across paper, and create a rainbow windsock to take home. R...