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Signature Event
August 19, 2010
8:30pm
Filmmaker Gary Jenkins presents Negroes To Hire, a documentary on slavery in Missouri based on American...
Signature Event
August 15, 2010
4:00pm
 Former Kansas City Star editor Laura Hockaday shares historical and personal anecdotes attributed to two Star...
Signature Event
August 12, 2010
8:30pm
John T. Fleming III, executive vice president of Black Educational Events, discusses the state of historically black colleges an...
Signature Event
August 11, 2010
8:30pm
Described as "a vital new voice in American fiction," Kansas City resident Doug Worgul presents his novel Thin Blue...
Signature Event
August 5, 2010
8:30pm
Acclaimed film historian and critic David Thomson speaks about the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock’s most important film, as detailed...
Signature Event
August 3, 2010
8:30pm
Author Daniel S. Pierce discusses the history of NASCAR from its postwar beginnings on Daytona Beach and Piedmont dirt tracks to...
Signature Event
July 29, 2010
8:30pm
James Loewen, best-selling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, gives an original presentation on misconceptions...
Signature Event
July 24, 2010
3:30pm
Local historian Erik Stafford leads a presentation called Literacy & the Black Experience on Saturd...
Signature Event
July 22, 2010
8:30pm
Author Adrienne Mayor discusses her new book, The Poison King, a compelling account of one of Rome's mos...
Signature Event
July 21, 2010
8:30pm
Allan Meltzer, the leading historian of the nation’s central bank, and Tom Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve...