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One hundred years ago this month, women won their fight for the right to vote – though not all of them. Black women, who had pleaded as passionatel...
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It was inevitable that the bawdy, alcohol-infused culture of 19th-century Kansas City would draw the ire of social reformers and prohibi...
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In commemoration of the bicentennial anniversary of the Santa Fe Trail, historian Joy L. Poole examines the stories of five wives who...
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While his story is not widely known, Kansas City civil rights leader Leon M. Jordan was among the most influential African Americans in Missou...
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Today’s hyper-political sensitivity to U.S. Supreme Court appointments traces back to the only president elected from Missouri. Harry Truman revolu...
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Harry S. Truman was scarcely prepared to assume the presidency upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in April 1945. He’d been vice president for...
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Thursday, October 4, 2018
6:30pm
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University of Kansas paleontologist David Burnham discusses his work unearthing several young T. rex fossils in the Hell Creek rocks...
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
6:30pm
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Historian Ethan S. Rafuse examines a tumultuous year in the history of the Army of the Potomac, when Gen. “Fighting” Joe Hooker took...
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Sunday, March 10, 2019
2:00pm
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Commemorating Women’s History Month, University of Missouri-Kansas City social historian Sandra Enríquez identifies...
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Tuesday, May 9, 2023
6:00pm
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In the latest installment of the Library’s Conflict and Crisis series, a panel of military historians and experts from the U....