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Signature Event
Thursday, March 6, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Decades before Oprah, Dr. Phil, and today’s innumerable gurus peddling surefire plans for bettering ourselves, Missourian Dale Carnegie...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
6:30pm
Angela Elam of New Letters on the Air, aired locally on KCUR 89.3 FM, holds a public conversation with author and Independen...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
6:30pm
Due to a quirk in the calendar in the year 1849, one school of thought contends that Missourian David Rice Atchison deserves to be co...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 27, 2014
6:30pm
To kick off this year’s McKinzie symposium—One Nation Under God: The Politics of America’s Religious Diversity—the University of Wisconsin...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
6:30pm
Kansas City’s River Market area was known in the 1970s as River Quay, a redeveloped home to restaurants and bohemian shops—and site of a violent...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
John B. Judis, senior editor at The New Republic, examines the half-century of raging conflict between Jews and Arabs—...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 23, 2014
2:00pm
Join Bernard Norcott-Mahany as he recounts “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (the movie Mitty is not the real Mitty)...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 20, 2014
6:30pm
Americans are familiar with Civil War land battles—but much less so with the war at sea, from the development of ironclad warships and submarine...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
6:30pm
Veteran re-enactor Charles Everett Pace brings his one man show to Kansas City to portray prominent abolitionist and social reformer...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
6:30pm
Well before the famous 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City sparked the modern gay rights movement, Kansas City had its own active gay rights communi...