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History & Genealogy
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...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 29, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Historian Bill Worley discusses the arrival and settlement of French traders in what’s now Kansas City’s West Bottoms area – but then was India...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 19, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In the keynote address for the Quindaro Symposium, held April 19-21 in Kansas City, Kansas, historian Quintard Taylor exp...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 12, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Jonathan Abel of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College sets the record straight on one of the more inspiring – but somewhat mythicized – cha...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his book The First Infantry Division and the U.S. Army Transformed: Road to Victory in Desert Storm, 1970-1991, ret...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 5, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Cornell University historian Ed Baptist traces much of what has happened with race relations in the U.S. in the past 150 years to efforts to co...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Florida State University’s Wayne Wiegand, widely considered the “dean of American library historians,” examines an overlooked chapter in our na...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
New York-area pianist/vocalist John Bauers portrays legendary lyricist Johnny Mercer (“One More for My Baby,” “Moon River,” “Days of Wine and Roses”),...
Signature Event
Monday, March 26, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Frustrated with the slow pace of civil rights reforms and outraged at the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., protesters in Kansas City took to t...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Janet Valentine of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College discusses that increased prominence of women in America’s military – the historical...