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Signature Event
Monday, March 26, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Frustrated with the slow pace of civil rights reforms and outraged at the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., protesters in Kansas City took to t...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 29, 2018
2:00pm
Historian Bill Worley discusses the arrival and settlement of French traders in what’s now Kansas City’s West Bottoms area – but then was India...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Florida State University’s Wayne Wiegand, widely considered the “dean of American library historians,” examines an overlooked chapter in our na...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 6, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice, local historian and blog...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 3, 2018
2:00pm
Though St. Louis has faced many trials and tribulations since its founding in 1764, no point in its history is remembered more for tragedy than 1849....
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Sheila Brooks, a Kansas City native and former TV personality who now heads the Washington, D.C.-based SRB Communications, discusses...
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Signature Event
Thursday, July 26, 2018
6:30pm
Historian Joel Rhodes, who led research for the Library exhibit It Finally Happened Here: The Kansas City Riot, April 9-12, 1968...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 29, 2018
2:00pm
When restaurateur Fred Harvey established his popular Harvey House restaurants along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway in the late 1800s, tho...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 12, 2018
2:00pm
The Library examines the history of the Kansas City chapter of the polarizing Black Panther Party and its founder, Pete O’Neal, starting with a screen...