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History & Genealogy
Monday, April 11, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Libraries were an essential part of life for Jane Austen – and for the characters in her novels. She made ample use of her father’s collection of m...
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Seventy years ago, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson called the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg “the greatest tribute power ha...
Friday, April 1, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
The 1920s and '30s marked Kansas City's transformation from a rough "cowtown" into a vibrant, modern city – despite such hindrances as political co...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Among the things Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants left behind when they fled Kandahar after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was a cache...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Until the late 18th century, Shakespeare’s works were known in America only on the page – and not the stage. Felicia Hardison Londré...
Sunday, March 20, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
Efforts to combat blight and “renew” Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, took off after the end of World War II, but the results were m...
Sunday, March 6, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
The Library continues its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and more than six months of special programming surrounding o...
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
The latest installment of Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III spotlights two of the Midwest’s greatest artists, Kansas City’s Thomas...
Thursday, February 25, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Nearly three years before the Supreme Court’s ruling against school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka – the commonly ac...