All Library locations will be closed Monday, May 27, for Memorial Day.
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
6:00pm
Online
This event has been postponed at the presenters' request. We are working to reschedule and will share information about when and...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 8, 2022
6:00pm
Online
The Library and KCUR 89.3 kick off Securing Democracy, a three-part series inviting the community and its leaders to discuss securing democr...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
6:30pm
In Person
Learn about the past, present, and future of vision loss during the premiere of the podcast and video series Foresight, produced by Kansas City’s A...
Signature Event
Online
The format of this event has been changed to virtual only. Watch online at yout...
Signature Event
Online
Richard Nixon lamented that he would be remembered only for Watergate and warming relations with China. He wasn’t wrong – about the wreckage of Wat...
Signature Event
Online
Have we been too hard on George W. Bush?
Drawing in part from a raft of newly available archival records, noted historian...
Signature Event
Rep. Sharice Davis, in her second precedent-setting term in the U.S. House from Kansas’ 3rd District, discusses her new picture-book...
Signature Event
Online
While more than three dozen Kansas City restaurants have closed for good amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many, many more have managed to survive. But w...
Signature Event
Online
More than three dozen Kansas City restaurants, from burger joints to fine food establishments, have permanently closed over the past 10 months, par...
Signature Event
Online
Bluestem. Beignet. Poi-O. The Rieger. The toll of the COVID-19 pandemic extends all too sadly to some of Kansas City’s most adored restaurants, fro...