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History & Genealogy
Signature Event
Monday, February 20, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Historian of the United States Senate Donald Ritchie discusses presidential relations with Congress since Harry S. Truman.
Ritchie...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 19, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Kansas City Star sports reporter Blair Kerkhoff explains why the NAIA basketball tournament in Kansas City was instrument...
Signature Event
Saturday, February 11, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Musician/historian James Christopher Edwards brings the Civil War in Kansas and Missouri to life in this musical program about the...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 9, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Jennifer Phegley, chair of the Department of English at the University of Missouri – Kansas City, examines how many of our modern...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Adam Arenson, assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso, examines the efforts of St. Louis’ intellectuals...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Lee Ward, owner of the Museum of Funeral History in Independence, discusses 150 years of African-American funeral homes, which in the...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 2, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Purdue University historian Randy Roberts discusses the iconic 1944 football game between the undefeated cadets of West Point and the...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 29, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Edward T. Matheny, Jr., a civic leader who graduated from Southwest High School in 1940, takes a fond look back at the proud past of...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 26, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
University of Pennsylvania historian Stephanie McCurry offers a new interpretation of the Confederacy that contends the South sowe...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Richard B. Frank examines the new international scholarship on the first five years of China’s “War of Resistance” against Japan from...