Signature Event Strictly Speaking: Equal Rights Should Have No Deadline Saturday, August 29, 2020 10:00am How close are we to ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment? The question hangs anew over Congress. And the courts. Erica Bens... Read More
Signature Event Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener Thursday, August 27, 2020 6:30pm At 23, while serving as the youngest school principal in the state, Alice Chenoweth was excoriated in Ohio’s newspapers in 1876 for having an affai... Read More
Signature Event Qualified Rights: Women’s Suffrage, Citizenship, and the 19th Amendment Reconsidered Tuesday, August 18, 2020 6:30pm One hundred years ago this month, women won their fight for the right to vote – though not all of them. Black women, who had pleaded as passionatel... Read More
Signature Event JazzAlice: An Adventure in Musical Wonderland - Angela Hagenbach Monday, November 2, 2015 6:30pm Plaza Branch SPECIAL ENCORE PERFORMANCE Kansas City jazz legend Angela Hagenbach leads a diverse ensemble cast in an original... Read More
Signature Event Looking at Alice with an Artist’s Eye - Peregrine Honig Wednesday, October 14, 2015 6:30pm Central Library Internationally recognized Kansas City artist Peregrine Honig fixes her creative gaze on Lewis Carroll’s classic work of children’s l... Read More
Signature Event The Fairy Tale Explosion in Contemporary Media - Naphtali Faris Sunday, September 27, 2015 2:00pm Trails West Branch Revamped, revised, reworked, and reimagined fairy tale characters and stories have seen an explosion in contemporary media from graphic novels to tele... Read More
Signature Event Hollywood Wonderland: The Cinema and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Mitch Brian Wednesday, September 23, 2015 6:30pm Plaza Branch Beginning with a silent short released in 1903, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has intrigued both filmmakers and viewers. Lewis Carroll’s 1... Read More
Signature Event What Is It About Alice? - Mark Burstein Wednesday, September 16, 2015 6:30pm Central Library Few literary works are more quoted, translated, and adapted than Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This year marks the sesqui... Read More
Signature Event The Sack of Lawrence and the Guerrilla War Wednesday, August 21, 2013 6:30pm Central Library In Person On the 150th anniversary of William Clarke Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Tony R. Mullis of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff Co... Read More
Signature Event Quantrill in the Movies: John Tibbetts Sunday, August 18, 2013 2:00pm Central Library In Person William Quantrill’s August 21, 1863 Confederate raid on Lawrence, Kansas, left nearly 200 men and boys dead and the city in flames. Film expert... Read More