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History & Genealogy
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Jonathan House of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, a leading authority on Soviet military history, discusses one of t...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
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Signature Event
Sunday, August 12, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
The Library examines the history of the Kansas City chapter of the polarizing Black Panther Party and its founder, Pete O’Neal, starting with a screen...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 29, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
When restaurateur Fred Harvey established his popular Harvey House restaurants along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway in the late 1800s,...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 26, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Historian Joel Rhodes, who led research for the Library exhibit It Finally Happened Here: The Kansas City Riot, April 9-12, 1968...
Signature Event
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Sheila Brooks, a Kansas City native and former TV personality who now heads the Washington, D.C.-based SRB Communications, discusses...
Signature Event
Signature Event
Sunday, June 3, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Though St. Louis has faced many trials and tribulations since its founding in 1764, no point in its history is remembered more for tragedy than 184...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Retired Canadian Army Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire discusses his attempt to end the coerced recruitment and use of children as soldiers, a...