The Westport and Bluford branches will be closed Wednesday, June 12 for staff training.
Signature Event
Saturday, February 10, 2024
1:00pm
In Person
Drawing from their respective books, KelLee Parr and Stephen Rowley share their personal connections to The Willows, the most prominent of Kansas City...
Signature Event
Saturday, January 27, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
In a special Missouri Valley Saturdays discussion of her new book States of Swing: The History of the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra, 2003-2023, author Li...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 1, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
There remains a haunting stillness over the grounds around Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland, where 3,650 Union and Confederate soldiers perish...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 16, 2018
2:00pm
Public historians Diane Eickhoff and Aaron Barnhart recall how hundreds of women defied cultural norms of the time t...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 19, 2018
6:30pm
In the keynote address for the Quindaro Symposium, held April 19-21 in Kansas City, Kansas, historian Quintard Taylor exp...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 5, 2017
2:00pm
The Library continues its movie series for individuals with dementia, their friends, and families with the lighthearted documentary The Sear...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 10, 2017
2:00pm
The Library continues its special, intergenerational movie series for individuals with dementia, their friends, and families with the amiable, c...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 11, 2017
2:00pm
The Library continues its special, intergenerational movie series for individuals with dementia, their friends, and families with a lively, baseball-t...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 9, 2017
2:00pm
The Library continues its special, intergenerational movie series for individuals with dementia, their friends, and families, screening the effervesce...