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Signature Event
Sunday, December 8, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
As Kansas City grew in the 19th century, so did the business of sin. Noting the pervasiveness of vice and debauchery, a visitor in 1888 described it a...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 5, 2020
2:00pm
In Person
Women who were pregnant and unmarried in the early 1900s faced limited options and societal scorn. Many chose, or were sent, to deliver their babie...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 9, 2020
2:00pm
In Person
In 1934, brothers Dizzy and Daffy Dean were stars of Major League Baseball’s regular season and World Series. Following their St. Louis Cardinals’...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 9, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
Founded as a port at the confluence of two great rivers, Kansas City has the waters of the Missouri running through its bloodstream—threading expressw...
Signature Event
Online
Carmaletta Williams, chief executive officer of the Black Archives of Mid-America, discusses her work with the Equal Justice Initiati...
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Online
Before the Lewis and Clark Expedition arrived at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers in 1804 and a young St. Louis couple, Francois and B...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 24, 2022
2:00pm
Online
In Person
The infamous Missouri Executive Order 44 – known as the Extermination Ord...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 17, 2023
2:00pm
Online
In Person
In a discussion drawing from his new book The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960 and After, Lucas Hilderbrand of the U...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 21, 2024
1:30pm
In Person
The annual Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series returns, spotlighting a selection of sci-fi films as it looks to illuminate our understanding of...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 4, 2024
1:30pm
In Person
The 2024 Searching the Psyche Through Cinema film series, which looks to the arts (and this year, to science fiction) to illuminate our understanding...