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Signature Event
Sunday, February 12, 2017
2:00pm
African-Americans have served proudly in every great American war, including the Civil War, where their verve and valor led to the establishment of al...
Exhibit
August 18, 2013
- December 29, 2013
Before and during the Civil War, Confederate guerrillas – men like William Clarke Quantrill, “Bloody Bill” Anderson, and Frank and Jesse James – battl...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 21, 2008
4:00pm
In the aftermath of Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence, Kansas, Union General Thomas Ewing, Jr., became suspicious of local support for Confederate sy...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 5, 2009
6:30pm
Recommended reading:
Abraham Lincoln:...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
6:30pm
Related Reading:
Abraham Lincoln: Lif...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
6:30pm
The third installment in the series that focuses on local entrepreneurs features Mary Carol Garrity, founder of Nell Hill’s and one o...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
6:30pm
As a precursor to Global Entrepreneurship Week, Library Director Crosby Kemper III conducts a public conversation wi...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
8:00am
Kansas City’s self-described “bean baron” Danny O’Neill discusses the founding and continued success of The Roasterie...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 10, 2011
6:30pm
Michael Fellman, a preeminent scholar of the American Civil War and an expert on the guerilla warfare that characterized the conflict...