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Before the Lewis and Clark Expedition arrived at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers in 1804 and a young St. Louis couple, Francois and B...
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Sunday, April 24, 2022
2:00pm
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The infamous Missouri Executive Order 44 – known as the Extermination Ord...
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Sunday, December 17, 2023
2:00pm
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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
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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
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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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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
6:00pm
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What does it mean to be a “great city”? Since 2018, the Library has hosted public presentations by urban planners and round-table conversations with c...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2022
6:00pm
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Memphis, a sprawling, river-flanked, music- and barbecue-imbued city some 7½ hours to the south, offers some important lessons in development for Kans...
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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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Wednesday, June 5, 2013
6:30pm
As the oldest and favorite daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph was well educated, known on two continents...
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Sunday, August 18, 2013
2:00pm
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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...