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Signature Event
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
John B. Judis, senior editor at The New Republic, examines the half-century of raging conflict between Jews and Arabs—...
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Sunday, April 27, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
The 1876 raid by the James-Younger gang on Northfield, Minnesota, may be the most famous bank robbery in history.
Recognizing what was happening, c...
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Thursday, August 15, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
The 1869 killing of a bank cashier in Gallatin, Missouri, has long been considered the first in a long line of robberies by Jesse and Frank James. But...
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Thursday, September 26, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles. In this they were just like the fic...
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Sunday, December 8, 2013
2:00pm
By 1940, Kansas City authorities had finally deposed “Boss Tom” Pendergast. In the spring of that year, teams of laborers from the Works Progress Admi...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Theodore Roosevelt was one of the major figures in America’s Progressive movement in the early 20th century. But key to his influence was the support...
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Sunday, January 19, 2014
2:00pm
Trumpeter Miles Davis once said: "You can tell the history of jazz in four words: Louis Armstrong. Charlie Parker."
Saxophone virtuoso Charlie "Bir...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013
6:30pm
Even for those of us unfamiliar with history, the very name “Gettysburg” suggests a monumental clash of armies. But beyond the chaos of the battle its...
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Thursday, November 21, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
If George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are the saints in America’s civil religion, then the 29th president, Warren G. Harding, is o...
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Sunday, August 26, 2012
2:00pm
Civil War battlefields stubbornly conceal their secrets and their archaeology remains a buried, largely untapped source of historical information....