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Signature Event
Sunday, January 5, 2020
2:00pm
In Person
Women who were pregnant and unmarried in the early 1900s faced limited options and societal scorn. Many chose, or were sent, to deliver their babie...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 9, 2020
2:00pm
In Person
In 1934, brothers Dizzy and Daffy Dean were stars of Major League Baseball’s regular season and World Series. Following their St. Louis Cardinals’...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 9, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
Founded as a port at the confluence of two great rivers, Kansas City has the waters of the Missouri running through its bloodstream—threading expressw...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 24, 2022
2:00pm
Online
In Person
The infamous Missouri Executive Order 44 – known as the Extermination Ord...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 17, 2023
2:00pm
Online
In Person
In a discussion drawing from his new book The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960 and After, Lucas Hilderbrand of the U...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 24, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
Carmaletta Williams, CEO of the Black Archives of Mid-America, discusses the research of the Greater Kansas City Black Suffragist Committee, formed ne...
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Sunday, April 14, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
Janssen Place, the first private street built in Kansas City in the 1890s, is still considered one of the city’s most beautiful developments. Kansas C...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 20, 2013
2:00pm
Biographer Robert Farnsworth discusses his new eBook about the life, death, and legacy of Leon Jordan, a one-time po...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 18, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
William Quantrill’s August 21, 1863 Confederate raid on Lawrence, Kansas, left nearly 200 men and boys dead and the city in flames. Film expert...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 14, 2014
2:00pm
Fifty years ago, in September 1964, The Beatles appeared – some say flopped – at Kansas City’s Municipal Stadium. Charley Finley, controversial owner...