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Signature Event
Sunday, June 8, 2014
2:00pm
Postcards were the “instant messages” of their day, a means of communicating hometown pride, civic identity, and a visitor’s curiosity. But where toda...
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Sunday, June 22, 2014
2:00pm
On October 21-23, 1864, a Confederate army led by General Sterling Price clashed with its Union counterpart commanded by General Samuel Curtis. The im...
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Sunday, March 4, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Micah W. Kubic, who heads the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas, discusses his book about Freedom, Inc., and its more than half-cen...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
New York-area pianist/vocalist John Bauers portrays legendary lyricist Johnny Mercer (“One More for My Baby,” “Moon River,” “Days of Wine and Roses”),...
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Sunday, April 29, 2018
2:00pm
Historian Bill Worley discusses the arrival and settlement of French traders in what’s now Kansas City’s West Bottoms area – but then was India...
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Sunday, May 6, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice, local historian and blog...
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Sunday, June 3, 2018
2:00pm
Though St. Louis has faced many trials and tribulations since its founding in 1764, no point in its history is remembered more for tragedy than 1849....
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Sunday, July 29, 2018
2:00pm
When restaurateur Fred Harvey established his popular Harvey House restaurants along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway in the late 1800s, tho...
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Sunday, August 12, 2018
2:00pm
The Library examines the history of the Kansas City chapter of the polarizing Black Panther Party and its founder, Pete O’Neal, starting with a screen...
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Sunday, September 16, 2018
2:00pm
Public historians Diane Eickhoff and Aaron Barnhart recall how hundreds of women defied cultural norms of the time t...