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Germany’s defeat in World War II was inevitable by late 1943, but Adolf Hitler supposedly had an audacious plan for softening the final terms: disp...
Thursday, May 21, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Fashion changed forever on November 28, 1973, when a team of top U.S. designers—including Oscar de la Renta, Bill Blass, and Anne Klein—faced off on t...
Sunday, February 1, 2009
2:00pm
In the third season of the Script-in-Hand series of stage performances, the Kansas City Public Library and Metropolitan...
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This small painting contains a large variety of color and texture. Dark greens and blues of the outer edge struggle to focus in on the commotion of ta...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
In April 1862 a Union force under Ulysses S. Grant and a Confederate army led by Albert Sidney Johnston clashed in southwestern Tennessee in the Ba...
Thursday, December 12, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
An heiress who preferred big-game hunting to debutante balls, Gertrude “Gertie” Legendre was interesting enough to be an inspiration for a 1928 Broadw...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Religious zealotry plagues the world today, extremists avowing that they have all the truth, all the wisdom, all the divine favor.
Actual...
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
University of Virginia historian William I. Hitchcock takes stock of Dwight Eisenhower’s far-reaching legacy as president in a discus...
Thursday, October 9, 2014
6:00pm
In Person
PLEASE NOTE: This is not a free event. Admission for dinner and the program is $15 for students, $25 for adults, and...
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The Library’s long, popular partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth resumes with the first in a new serie...