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History & Genealogy
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Military historian Geoff Babb of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College examines the historical twists and turns of America’s military relati...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 4, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Micah W. Kubic, who heads the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas, discusses his book about Freedom, Inc., and its more than half-cen...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Historian Jon Taylor of the University of Central Missouri examines the most consequential political marriage in our city’s and state...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 18, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Cowboy historian Jim Gray, executive director of the National Drovers Hall of Fame in Ellsworth, Kansas, recalls the early days of...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Military historian Sean Kalic of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College discusses one of the most frightful urban battles of World War...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 8, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In conjunction with Black History Month, Gary Kremer, director of the State Historical Society of Missouri, examines the journey of Missouri’s...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 1, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
West Texas A&M University’s Amy Von Lintel, co-creator of the Library exhibit Cattle, Cowboys, and Culture, looks at the seedier side of...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Fifty years to the day after the launch of the Tet Offensive of 1968, Bud Meador of the U.S. Army General Command and Staff College examines...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 28, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of his book For All Children Everywhere, a comprehensive history of Kansas City’s renowned Children’s Mercy...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 25, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Before opening Auschwitz and other notorious death camps, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi German adherents carried out a grim and deadly prelude. In an e...