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March 2013

Henry Adams Continues the Library's First Ladies Series With a Look at Abigail Adams
Angels in Black Topcoats Are Watching Over Us In Wim Wenders' Haunting Allegory Wings of Desire
What is "Good Taste"? Damon Talbott Seeks Answers Through the Life and Posthumous Career of Duncan Hines
James G. Basker Examines the Fiery Variety Of Early Anti-Slavery Writings
Why Everything You Used to Know About Travel Is Wrong
Harvard's Theda Skocpol Looks at a Recent Political Phenomenon In the Tea Party and Civic Engagement in America
Stanley and Janet Banks Team Up To Present Their Urban Blue Poetry
Former Kansas City Police Chiefs Look Back on Years of Achievement and Conflict
Hitchcock Delivers a Voyeur's Nightmare In the Classic Rear Window
Hitchcock Delivers a Voyeur's Nightmare In the Classic Rear Window
Bill Fletcher Jr. Refutes Claims That Unions Are Bankrupting Us
David Von Drehle Looks at the Pivotal Year 1862 And Abraham Lincoln's Rise to Greatness
The Films of Spain's Pedro Almodovar Are Featured in a Saturday Afternoon Series
Catch a Glimpse of Erin With this Series of Irish Films
The Library's Exhibit KCBC Looks at Kansas City's Pre-History As Told by the Rocks Beneath Our Feet
Civil Rights Legend Julia Hill and Educator Mary Ann Wynkoop Hold a Public Conversation about Kansas City's Independent Women
Timothy Westcott Examines The 1855 Lexington Pro-Slavery Convention
Architect Beat Kämpfen Discusses His Pioneering Designs for Plus-Energy Buildings
Charlie Chaplin Delivers Three Rings of Fun In His 1928 Comedy Classic, The Circus
Carol Inge Hockett Examines the Nexus of Art and Commerce In The Other Mad Men: Pop Art in Perspective

February 2013