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Signature Event
Thursday, September 12, 2013
6:30pm
Jeffrey Frank discusses his new book Ike and Dick, which examines the 20-year political and private relatio...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014
6:30pm
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Thrust into the nation’s highest office following Richard Nixon’s resignation, Gerald R. Ford faced the impossible task of achieving much in little ti...
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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, December 7, 2014
2:00pm
George Creel, the onetime head of President Woodrow Wilson’s Committee on Public Information, recalled in his memoir “how we advertised America.” But...
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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...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
6:30pm
On the blog: Re...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
6:30pm
Historian Jeff Broadwater argues that no single figure can tell us more about the origins of the American republic than our fourth pr...
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
6:30pm
How could a president have won a war and lost a re-election? For George H.W. Bush, being Commander-in-Chief during Desert Storm was not enough....