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History & Genealogy
Signature Event
Sunday, September 28, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Kansas City’s Union Station opened 100 years ago next month, a grand, 850,000-square-foot edifice that saw as many as 678,000-plus rail passengers...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 14, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Fifty years ago, in September 1964, The Beatles appeared – some say flopped – at Kansas City’s Municipal Stadium. Charley Finley, controversial own...
Signature Event
Saturday, September 13, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
The Westport Historical Society and the Westport Branch Library present Aaron Barnhart & Diane Eickhoff: Price's Raid, Then and N...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 11, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
From Kansas City’s signature Country Club Plaza to pristine shopping districts and neighborhoods across the country, J.C. Nichols’ imprint on the Amer...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Two hundred years ago this month, during the War of 1812, the United States was in desperate straits. British forces had burned Washington, D.C. an...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Two thousand years after his death, the story of the founder of the Roman Empire is one of the most riveting in western history. Caesar Augustus ev...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Former State Department and CIA intelligence analyst Mark Stout discusses the birth of modern American espionage during World War I, from aerial recon...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 17, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Historian Petra DeWitt examines the suspicions and hostilities faced by Missouri’s sizable German American population during World War I, including qu...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
At 7 in the morning on February 21, 1916, the ground in northern France began to shake. For the next 10 hours, some 1,200 German guns showered shel...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 10, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Several Kansas Citians including neighborhood residents Alvin Brooks, Karen Slaughter, Telester Powell, Joe Louis Mattox recently created digital stor...