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Missouri Valley Sundays
Signature Event
Sunday, June 24, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Author Brandon G. Kinney explores the complex series of events that led to the brief but bloody Mormon War of 1838...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 3, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
On the eve of the 136th anniversary of the famous “Last Stand,” retired National Park Service Superintendent Paul L. Hedren asks: Was...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 17, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
July 17, 2011, marks the 30th anniversary of Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency hotel walkway collapse that killed 114 people and injured 216.
Kansa...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 19, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
The first-ever meeting of a national coalition of lesbian and gay leaders took place in Kansas City in 1966.
What preceded such activism? How...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 17, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
Organized crime formed part of the political, economic, and social fabric of Kansas City for much of the 20th century; and the mob’s power was never g...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 16, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
Diane Mutti Burke, an assistant professor of history at the University of Missouri – Kansas City, discusses he...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 17, 2010
4:00pm
In Person
Bill Stancil presents Rockhurst University: The First 100 Years, a lecture supplemented with numerous historical...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 18, 2010
4:00pm
In Person
Don Lambert discusses the efforts of 40 men and women whose so-called Topeka Constitution marked a milestone on the road Kansas w...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 16, 2010
4:00pm
In Person
Kenneth H. Winn tells the seldom-heard story of Indian agent George Sibley and Ellen Lorr, whose failure to marry touche...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 18, 2010
4:00pm
In Person
Master storyteller Gladys Coggswell shares inspirational tales and “down-home” stories about all walks of African-American life...