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History & Genealogy
Signature Event
Sunday, September 29, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
True...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 26, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles. In this they were just like the fic...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
For nearly 50 years Josephine Marcus Earp was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp, the legendary hero of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. As an indep...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 22, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
The country duo Granville Automatic performs songs from An Army Without Music, a recording project in which each song is...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 19, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Few Supreme Court decisions have stirred up as much controversy, vitriolic debate, and even violence as 1973’s Roe v. Wade, which affirmed a woman’...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 15, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
Though far from the fashion center of New York, Kansas City once boasted a large, vibrant garment manufacturing industry. During its heyday in the ear...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 12, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Jeffrey Frank discusses his new book Ike and Dick, which examines the 20-year political and private rela...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Theodore Roosevelt was one of the major figures in America’s Progressive movement in the early 20th century. But key to his influence was the support...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 8, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
Built in 1942 in Johnson County, Kansas, the Sunflower Ordnance Works quickly became the world’s largest producer of rocket propellant, an essentia...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Long before the Civil War began violence was commonplace along the Missouri-Kansas border. There a recurring cycle of robbery, arson, torture, murd...