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Signature Event
Sunday, April 24, 2022
2:00pm
Online
In Person
The infamous Missouri Executive Order 44 – known as the Extermination Ord...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 17, 2023
2:00pm
Online
In Person
In a discussion drawing from his new book The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960 and After, Lucas Hilderbrand of the U...
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Sunday, March 24, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
Carmaletta Williams, CEO of the Black Archives of Mid-America, discusses the research of the Greater Kansas City Black Suffragist Committee, formed ne...
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Sunday, April 14, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
Janssen Place, the first private street built in Kansas City in the 1890s, is still considered one of the city’s most beautiful developments. Kansas C...
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Sunday, January 20, 2013
2:00pm
Biographer Robert Farnsworth discusses his new eBook about the life, death, and legacy of Leon Jordan, a one-time po...
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Sunday, August 18, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
William Quantrill’s August 21, 1863 Confederate raid on Lawrence, Kansas, left nearly 200 men and boys dead and the city in flames. Film expert...
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Sunday, September 14, 2014
2:00pm
Fifty years ago, in September 1964, The Beatles appeared – some say flopped – at Kansas City’s Municipal Stadium. Charley Finley, controversial owner...
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Sunday, August 17, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Historian Petra DeWitt examines the suspicions and hostilities faced by Missouri’s sizable German American population during World War I, including qu...
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Sunday, November 16, 2014
2:00pm
Although Kansas joined the Union as a free state, African Americans entering this new land looking for homes and livelihoods encountered a rigid color...
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Sunday, October 19, 2014
2:00pm
Not only is Kansas City home to world-class art museums, outstanding performing arts venues, and some of the planet’s best barbecue, it also boasts su...