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"Remembering Vietnam" Exhibition Opening: Six Years in the Hanoi Hilton
"Six Years in the Hanoi Hilton" relates the story of Air Force fighter pilot James Shively, who spent six years in Hanoi prison camps after he was shot down over North Vietnam.
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Documents That Changed the Way We Live
Professor Joseph Janes examines dozens of stories that describe documents via their creation, motivation, influence, and connections to contemporary information objects, technologies, and trends.
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We Have Not a Government: The Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution
In George William Van Cleve’s book, we encounter a sharply divided America and a Congress that grudgingly agreed to support the 1787 Constitutional Convention to replace the Articles of Confederation.
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Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
Liza Mundy’s Code Girls is the astonishing, untold story of the young American women who cracked key Axis codes, helping to secure Allied victory and revolutionizing the field of cryptanalysis.
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The Vietnam War with Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
Directors Ken Burns and Lynn Novick show clips from their PBS documentary series, The Vietnam War in conjunction with the November 10 opening of National Archives exhibit.
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The Allies Strike Back, 1941-1943: The War in the West, Vol. II
In James Holland’s The Allies Strike Back, Germany’s invasion of Russia unfolds in the east while in the west, the Americans formally enter the war.
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Women and the Supreme Court
Explore the legacy of the four women who have served and the 726 women who have argued before the United States Supreme Court.
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Changing Times: Kansas City's LGBTQIA History
Author discussion and signing with David Jackson who will discuss Changing Times: Kansas City's LBGTQIA History
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Author Conversation and Signing with Dr. Felix Sabates, Sr.
The National Archives at Kansas City will host Dr. Felix Sabates Sr., author of From Cuba with a Vision: Losing my homeland and gaining the American dream, a story of passionate choices.
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Constitutional Ethos: Liberal Equality for the Common Good
Join us to investigate the fundamental constitutional principles, meaning and interpretation, and promotes a theory of constitutional law structured on the public duty to protect