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Books & Authors
Signature Event
Thursday, November 16, 2017
6:30pm
Former ambassador David F. Lambertson, who served in Saigon in the mid-1960s as a member of the American embassy’s political secti...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Columbia University professor and writer Helen Benedict and the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Whitney Terrell...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 2, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
As the Vietnam War escalated in the 1960s, Hollywood was struggling financially and the longtime studio system was collapsing. Into the vacuum step...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States in large part by campaigning against the establishment. Now, author and conservative...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 26, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book, Dearest Mother: Letters from a Lonesome Sammy, 1915-1919, Kansas City marketing icon, local...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
During the Vietnam conflict, battles on the homefront went beyond anti-war protests. Activists gathered in support of many cultural movements: civi...
Signature Event
Friday, October 20, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Noted explorer, anthropologist, and best-selling author Wade Davis illuminates the dangers inherent in challenging the Mount Everest...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 19, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
For many U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, music was the connection between battlefront and homefront and helped them cope with the complexities of the war...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book, Mark Bowden (author of the best-seller Black Hawk Down) details one of...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 12, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
The Vietnam War still has the power to divide Americans between those for and against it—and just as surely, between those who remember the era fir...