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Signature Event
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
6:30pm
In Person
Historian Ron Smith discusses his new book Thomas Ewing Jr.: Frontier Lawyer and Civil War General....
Signature Event
Sunday, June 12, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
Author, photographer, and local historian Bruce Mathews discusses Charles A. Smith’s work in the first installment of the Library’...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 17, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
Henry F Hoit designed many of Kansas City’s most iconic commercial and residential buildings, including the Kansas City Power & Light Building, th...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 10, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Elmer Boillot and Jesse Lauck designed houses in the Coleman Highlands, Sunset Hills and Country Club District neighborhoods, including The Walnuts. T...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
She is no longer a household name, but during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration Frances Perkins was one of America’s most inf...
Signature Event
Friday, June 19, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David McCullough explores the lives, trials, and ultimate triumph of aviation pioneers...
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
3:00pm
In Person
Your house just might be a tangible piece of Kansas City history. Gain the tools to coax your home into telling its tale on Saturday...
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Sunday, December 4, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
The images of the military destruction suffered on December 7, 1941, and the words that followed by President Franklin Roosevelt have been seared i...
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Thursday, December 4, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Seventy-five years ago this week, shortly after the start of World War II, tiny Finland began a valiant, 105-day stand against a massive Soviet inv...
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Monday, September 26, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
The Salem Witch Trials remain one of the more astonishing chapters in American history. The Massachusetts village was gripped in hysteria in the la...