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History & Genealogy
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
One of the nation’s top military historians, John McManus of the Missouri University of Science and Technology, examines the influenc...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Reihan Salam sees the United States’ immigration crisis as solvable. It requires … ahem, compromise.
The son of Bangladeshi im...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 10, 2019
2:00pm
Powerful imagery of protests and violence helped bring attention to America's civil rights movement. Black photographers of the era broadened the nati...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 24, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
There’s a certain uneasiness about former concentration camps, ghettos, and other sites associated with the Holocaust being draws for tourists. But Gr...
Signature Event
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...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Thomas E. Ward of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College traces the history and impact of a weapon that occupies a special p...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
The University of Kansas’ John Tibbetts draws from 35 years of conversations with some of the world’s finest musicians in discussing...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 6, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
Authors Carol Grove and Cydney Millstein sit down with former Kansas City council member Jan Marcason...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 16, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Retired Kansas City attorney Michael Cronan discusses his book on the colorful life and career of James A. Reed, a Pendergast-backed...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 13, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Victory distant but in view, the U.S. and its World War II allies gathered in Egypt and Iran late in 1943 to map out strategy for the coming year and...