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History & Genealogy
Signature Event
Sunday, November 18, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Historian Eric Anderson discusses the tumultuous, yet formative, beginnings of Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas....
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Few military battles have matched the concentrated ferocity of the three-day fight between U.S. and Japanese forces in November 1943 for a sandy slive...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 1, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
There remains a haunting stillness over the grounds around Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland, where 3,650 Union and Confederate soldiers per...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 21, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book Benevolence, Moral Reform, Equality: Women’s Activism in Kansas City, 1870 to 1940, author...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In an illustrated discussion marking the launch of his book Kansas City Houses 1885–1938, local scholar Michael C. K...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
University of South Carolina scholar F.K. Clementi examines the origins of the Holocaust, and looks beyond the rise of Adolf Hitler and German...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 4, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
University of Kansas paleontologist David Burnham discusses his work unearthing several young T. rex fossils in the Hell Creek rocks...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Mexican American Baseball in Kansas City highlights the standout teams and players in the greater Kansas City area and other...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Military historian Gregory Hospodor examines the Allies’ “bitter” World War II victory of 1943, a massive invasion of Sicily that too...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 16, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Public historians Diane Eickhoff and Aaron Barnhart recall how hundreds of women defied cultural norms of the time t...