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History & Genealogy
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...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 11, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, discusses her four trips to Afghanistan since 2010 and explains what...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 4, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
The images of the military destruction suffered on December 7, 1941, and the words that followed by President Franklin Roosevelt have been seared i...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Shawn Faulkner of the Military History Department at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth discusses the condi...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 20, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
Drawing from their book, The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory, authors James Leiker and...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second largest Jewish ghetto in Poland. The ghetto’s chosen leader, Mordechai Chaim Rumk...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 12, 2011
9:00am
In Person
The Border Reconstructed and Remembered, moderated by Gary Kremer, The State Historical Society of Missouri, and fe...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 12, 2011
9:00am
In Person
The Border Reconstructed and Remembered, moderated by Gary Kremer, The State Historical Society of Missouri, and fe...
Signature Event
Friday, November 11, 2011
1:30pm
In Person
Sectional Crisis and Civil War on the Western Border, 1860-1865, moderated by William Piston, Missouri State Univers...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 10, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Michael Fellman, a preeminent scholar of the American Civil War and an expert on the guerilla warfare that characterized the conflict...