Join us for Veterans Reader's Theater on November 5th at 7 PM.

A one-time, live performance of prose and poetry, featuring members of the Kansas City Veterans Writing Team! Hear dynamic stories of military service and more from the words of local military veterans and their family members. Free and open to the general public. Hosted in partnership with the Missouri Humanities.

The Veterans Reader’s Theater will be produced and directed by George Pettigrew, a military veteran with extensive experience in oral storytelling performance. The fall 2020 Veterans Reader’s Theater will be broadcasted through Zoom. Veterans Q&A to follow reading. Registration Required.
Join us for a three-part Virtual Veterans Writing Series beginning on November 7th at 10 AM.


Learn how to tell your story virtually with fellow Missouri veterans, military personnel, and their families in this three-session online workshop. Veterans Writing Workshops are designed to help participants develop the writing and narrative skills that can empower them to tell their stories, whether they be truelife accounts or wholly original tales. Participants are guided through writing exercises with meaningful feedback from professional writers and educators. Registration IS FREE, BUT SPACE IS LIMITED. Participants are encouraged to join all 3 sessions. In Session One, facilitator Trish Reeves will guide participants through ideas associated with the use of “Imagery and Movement” in poetry and prose. Through numerous examples Trish will illustrate the power of these two vital elements and how to incorporate them into storytelling through writing exercises.
 
Workshop provided in partnership with the Kansas City Veterans Writing Team and Missouri Humanities.


Save the date for the other two sessions:

Session II; "Writing to Connect" - November 14th

Session III: "Writing to Hear" - November 21st
Join us for the second part of a three-part series Teacher Workshop: FDR, WW2, and the Holocaust - Session II: "What Did the United States Know?" on November 9th at 4 PM.


Join teachers in a discussion of the words, ideas, and actions of FDR in response to growing evidence of the Holocaust, and his handling of WW2 in general, all through a curated collection of primary source documents. All attendees of this free Seminar will be provided with a certificate for continuing education, and digital copies of the agenda and documents reader.

Save the date for:

Session III: "What Should (or Could) the United States Have Done? - November 16th
Join us for our first annual Native Historians Symposium on November 11th at 9 AM.

Indigenous Resurgence is our stories as we keep, live, and breathe them now, in a good way.

Join us for our virtual inaugural Native Historian Symposium "The Future of the Past: The Next Generation of Native Historians".
Join us for Explore Missouri's German Heritage Chapter 3: O Brave New World (das Auswanderung) on November 12th at 10 AM.


In 2019, Missouri Humanities partnered with Missouri Life Publishing to create a “book-a-zine” exploring the many facets of “Germanness” in our state: Explore Missouri’s German Heritage. Authored by Dr. W. Arthur Mehrhoff, the publication serves as both a travel guide and coffee table book. Join us at 10AM every second Thursday, from September to April, as Arthur and our Director of Heritage Programs, Caitlin Yager, dive into each chapter and explore the stories of the people, places, and ideas that helped shape Missouri’s German cultural heritage. Join us as we discuss Gottfried Duden and the first waves of German immigration into Missouri. We’ll also discuss some of the first German settlements in Missouri and other significant historic sites.