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Signature Event
Sunday, March 10, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
Commemorating Women’s History Month, University of Missouri-Kansas City social historian Sandra Enríquez identifies...
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Sunday, March 5, 2017
2:00pm
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In 1894, when women’s lives and choices were restricted and their influence was limited, a group of Kansas Citians answered a call to “stand shoulder...
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Sunday, December 4, 2016
2:00pm
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As it did throughout America, World War II affected every facet of life in Franklin County, Kansas, from 1941-45. The experience there was captured by...
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Sunday, September 10, 2017
2:00pm
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Folklorist and historian Adam Miller recalls the frontier-life origins of the folk music of Kansas and Missouri. A singer and autohar...
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Sunday, September 15, 2013
2:00pm
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Though far from the fashion center of New York, Kansas City once boasted a large, vibrant garment manufacturing industry. During its heyday in the ear...
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Sunday, December 6, 2015
2:00pm
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No other resident of Kansas City, past or present, has achieved the worldwide fame of Walt Disney. He created the animated Mickey Mouse and establi...
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Sunday, September 28, 2014
2:00pm
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Kansas City’s Union Station opened 100 years ago next month, a grand, 850,000-square-foot edifice that saw as many as 678,000-plus rail passengers...
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Sunday, January 17, 2010
2:00pm
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Twyla Dell discusses the rapid rise of Kansas City in its first 100 years and the role that energy played in its development o...
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Sunday, November 17, 2013
2:00pm
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In the late 1940s and 1950s, Kansas City native Tommy Campbell won 50 professional fights and became the world’s No. 2 lightweight. B...
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Sunday, June 9, 2024
2:00pm
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Local attorney Gary Jenkins, a filmmaker, author and former Kansas City police detective, investigated mafia bombings and murders in the 1970s in the...