Upcoming Visitor Events - 6/24/2012
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The stunning photographs of the Haskell Indian Nations graduation, taken by local artist David Alleyne, will be on display throughout the month of May during regular museum... details>>
Brown v. Board of Education will host “Expressions of Freedom and Equality,” an exhibit created in partnership with artists representing The Dream Rocket Project. The exhibit... details>>
A special traveling exhibit created by the Missouri History Museum and the Missouri Humanities Council is on display. The exhibit explores the tumultuous Civil War history of... details>>
Brown v. Board of Education will host “Expressions of Freedom and Equality,” an exhibit created in partnership with artists representing The Dream Rocket Project. The exhibit... details>>
Brown v. Board of Education will host “Expressions of Freedom and Equality,” an exhibit created in partnership with artists representing The Dream Rocket Project. The exhibit... details>>
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6/24/2012 12:00:00 AM | Kansas City, MO
During the Civil War Missouri was a state divided, suffering from a fractured identity and caught up in a struggle of no quarter. That violent period of near-anarchy is examined in the traveling exhibit A State Divided: The Civil War in Missouri, a joint effort of the Missouri Humanities Council and the Missouri History Museum. This exhibit follows the “bushwhackers” and “Jayhawkers” whose bitter enmity continues to color the relations between Missourians & Kansans. See website for hours....details >>
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6/24/2012 9:00:00 AM | Ottawa, KS
Americans by Choice: The Story of Immigration & Citizenship in Kansas
This exhibit illustrates paths to citizenship taken by KS settlers from around the world over the past 150 years, & personalizes the story of immigration and citizenship—who came, where they came from, why they came to KS , & why they chose to become U.S. citizens. It features photographs, documents, & quotes describing major laws affecting immigration and naturalization over the past 150 years, the consequences of those laws and how they directly affected the life of a Kansan. Closed Mondays....details >>
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6/24/2012 2:00:00 PM | Kansas City, MO
Brandon G. Kinney: The Mormon War of 1838
Author Brandon G. Kinney explores the complex series of events that led to the brief but bloody Mormon War of 1838, a conflict over religion, ideology, and land pitting Joseph Smith and his Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints against other Missouri residents, the governor, and the state militia. Kinney is a graduate of the Creighton University School of Law and practices law in Butler, Missouri. He is the author of The Mormon War: Zion and the Missouri Extermination Order of 1838....details >>
