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History & Genealogy
Signature Event
Thursday, January 18, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Gates Brown of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College discusses the eventful 10-day meeting during World War II in which Franklin Roosevelt a...
Signature Event
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
James Shipley, one of fewer than 200 surviving members of the famed, all-black World War II unit known as the Tuskegee Airmen, joins author Jeremy...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 7, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book President McKinley: Architect of the American Century, acclaimed historian Robert Merry gives 2...
Signature Event
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Military historian Louis DiMarco of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College discusses Operation Torch, the bold U.S.-British invasion o...
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of their book 100 Years' Journey: The Greenway Fields Neighborhood, co-authors Elizabeth Noble and LaDene Mo...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 3, 2017
2:00pm
In Person
Retired FBI agent William Ouseley joins Jonathan Bender, an editor for KCPT - Kansas City PBS, in discussing Kansas City’s gangland past...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
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Signature Event
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Columbia University professor and writer Helen Benedict and the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Whitney Terrell...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 12, 2017
2:00pm
In Person
Artist and filmmaker Brian Hawkins examines our state’s mostly east-side French Creole community – specifically its rich collection of folktale...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 4, 2017
7:30pm
In Person
When Johann Sebastian Bach’s choral compositions turn to love, it’s in a theological sense. Love of God. Love for one’s neighbor. But the sentiment is...