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This Is Really Happening, See?

January 20, 2018 - April 1, 2018

Central Library

Images of familiar, even mundane environs can carry great intimacy, revealing something true about an individual and affirming life as a deep and comp...

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Stars on the Walk of Fame: Celebrity Photography of Orval Hixon

December 15, 2017 - December 15, 2018

Central Library

Just a four-minute walk from Kansas City’s old First National Bank – now the home of the Central Library – some of the biggest names in American enter...

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Murder and Mayhem: Tales of Two Cities

Thursday, February 1, 2018 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

West Texas A&M University’s Amy Von Lintel, co-creator of the Library exhibit Cattle, Cowboys, and Culture, looks at the seedier side of...

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Art Starts at the Library

Friday, February 2, 2018 5:30pm

Central Library

In Person

The Central Library provides a perfect family-friendly starting point on First Friday. Among the offerings: the exhibit Cattle, Cowboys, and Cultur...

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The Siege of Budapest

Tuesday, February 13, 2018 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Military historian Sean Kalic of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College discusses one of the most frightful urban battles of World War...

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The British ‘Beef Bonanza’

Wednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Michael Grauer of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas, discusses the effort by British investors to cash in on American cattle in...

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Head 'Em Up and Move 'Em Out

Sunday, February 18, 2018 2:00pm

Central Library

In Person

Cowboy historian Jim Gray, executive director of the National Drovers Hall of Fame in Ellsworth, Kansas, recalls the early days of...

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Truman and the Pendergast Political Machine

Wednesday, February 28, 2018 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Historian Jon Taylor of the University of Central Missouri examines the most consequential political marriage in our city’s and state...

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Quindaro: The Coming of Freedom in the Decade of Civil War

Thursday, April 19, 2018 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

In the keynote address for the Quindaro Symposium, held April 19-21 in Kansas City, Kansas, historian Quintard Taylor exp...

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Freedom, Inc. and Black Political Empowerment

Sunday, March 4, 2018 2:00pm

Central Library

In Person

Micah W. Kubic, who heads the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas, discusses his book about Freedom, Inc., and its more than half-cen...

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