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Signature Event
Thursday, November 2, 2017
6:30pm
As the Vietnam War escalated in the 1960s, Hollywood was struggling financially and the longtime studio system was collapsing. Into the vacuum step...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 7, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book President McKinley: Architect of the American Century, acclaimed historian Robert Merry gives 2...
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Wednesday, April 5, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy was three years into his incendiary search for Communists when Dwight Eisenhower assumed the presidency in 1953. Ike...
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Thursday, April 14, 2022
6:30pm
In Person
U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, whose acclaimed An American Sunrise is the focus of the Library’s Big...
Signature Event
Saturday, January 27, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
In a special Missouri Valley Saturdays discussion of her new book States of Swing: The History of the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra, 2003-2023, author Li...
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Saturday, February 10, 2024
1:00pm
In Person
Drawing from their respective books, KelLee Parr and Stephen Rowley share their personal connections to The Willows, the most prominent of Kansas City...
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Thursday, November 1, 2012
6:30pm
With his thick spectacles, big teeth, and boundless energy, President Theodore Roosevelt was a cartoonist’s dream subject. Rick Marschall...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
6:30pm
Author Robert W. Merry wraps up the presidential election – and the Hail to the Chiefs series – with a fresh, playful, and challengin...
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Seemingly austere and reportedly passive in the face of a national economic calamity, Herbert Hoover is somewhat of a political orphan. But biographer...
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
For all his accomplishments and advanced thinking, Thomas Jefferson could not get beyond his own limited perspective in matters of race. Drawing from...