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Books & Authors
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Rutgers University historian Rachel Devlin examines an underappreciated aspect of civil rights history – the crucial role of young African-Amer...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Thomas Frank is a liberal by conviction but an equal-opportunity critic of America’s foundering political system. In a discussion of...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
It appears to be the find of a lifetime. Shakespeareans worldwide were electrified earlier this year by the announced discovery of a previously unk...
Signature Event
Signature Event
Thursday, June 7, 2018
7:00pm
In Person
The four-day HEAR Now Festival, the audio equivalent of a film festival, returns to Kansas City to celebrate storytelling in all f...
Signature Event
Monday, May 21, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
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Signature Event
Sunday, May 20, 2018
2:00pm
Thomas Fox Averill discusses his most recent novel – Found Documents from the Life of Nell Johnson Doerr –t...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 10, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Harvard University professor Edward Glaeser looks at joblessness among “prime age” men between 25 and 54 and the public policies he says are cr...
Signature Event
Monday, May 7, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
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Signature Event
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...