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Sunday, June 21, 2009
4:00pm
In Person
In 1917, as the U.S. entered World War I, Isaac Katz turned a challenge into an opportunity. A wartime decree prohibited stores from staying ope...
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
8:30pm
In Person
Participate in the International Year of Astronomy when Dr. Steven Hawley—astronomer, astrophysicist and a...
Sunday, July 19, 2009
4:00pm
In Person
Kansas City's culinary style has been a matter of discussion since Sarah Coates, wife of mover-and-shaker Kersey Coates, complained about the foo...
Sunday, August 16, 2009
4:00pm
In Person
Comprised largely of free-state sympathizers, the German community of Concordia was located in Lafayette County, which contained more slaves tha...
Thursday, August 27, 2009
8:30pm
In Person
The Kansas City Public Library welcomes architecture critic Ulf Meyer to discuss Cities of the Pacific Century...
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
8:30pm
In Person
Historian Jerrold Hirsch leads a presentation called Portrait of America: A Cultural History of the Federal Writers' Proj...
Thursday, September 3, 2009
8:30pm
In Person
Among its most noteworthy achievements, the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) conducted more than 2,000 interviews with former slaves in 17 states f...
Sunday, September 20, 2009
4:00pm
In Person
The Lewis & Clark Expedition paused at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers for three days on its way west in 1804 – longer than...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
6:30pm
In Person
Thomas Frank, the author of the bestseller What’s the Matter with Kansas?, presents the revised paperback edition of hi...
Thursday, September 17, 2009
8:30pm
In Person
David Vine, an assistant professor of anthropology at American University, presents his book Island of Shame: The Se...