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Signature Event
Sunday, June 3, 2012
2:00pm
On the eve of the 136th anniversary of the famous “Last Stand,” retired National Park Service Superintendent Paul L. Hedren asks: Was...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 15, 2012
2:00pm
Since his first celluloid depiction in 1908, Jesse James has been the subject of more than 40 films and has been portrayed by the likes of Tyrone Powe...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 9, 2012
2:00pm
The 1940 U.S. Census revealed that Missouri had 3.8 million residents, there were 1.8 million Kansans, and Kansas City, Missouri, was home to 400,000...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 3, 2011
6:30pm
To commemorate the centennial of Ronald Reagan’s birth, historian Michael Schaller chronicles the life of one of America’s most notable and successful...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 19, 2015
2:00pm
In July 1974, an estimated 100,000 members—and probably more—of the Woodstock generation descended on the Missouri State Fairgrounds in Se...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2015
6:30pm
Lyndon Johnson had the misfortune of following the handsome, martyred John F. Kennedy into the White House and then miring his country in
Vietnam....
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Sunday, September 27, 2015
2:00pm
Two metro-area landmarks, the stainless steel-spired Temple and the domed Auditorium, accentuate the world headquarters of the Community of Christ in...
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Sunday, July 12, 2015
2:00pm
Local author, educator, and historian William Worley discusses the New York Life Insurance Building (20 W. 9th St.). Regarded as Kans...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 26, 2015
2:00pm
Jon Knight, who oversees design senior principal at Populous, describes the changes being made to the Board of Trade Building (4800 M...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 2, 2015
2:00pm
Mike Yeates and Andrew Mackey explain how they took an all-but-forgotten home and made it the office site of their business, The Real Estate Store. Th...