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Signature Event
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
French Emperor and military commander Napoleon Bonaparte continues to fascinate, even centuries after his death. Jonathan Abel, associate professor of...
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
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
In the latest installment of the Library’s Turning Points series in partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, military histori...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
In the latest installment of the Library’s Turning Points series in partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, military histori...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 30, 2022
1:30pm
Efforts to marginalize Native Americans and their culture could not dimini...
Signature Event
Walk into one of the hundreds of donut shops in Southern California – the land of glitz also happens to be the country’s donut capital – and odds a...
Signature Event
The city of Philadelphia reduced the size of the local jail population by nearly half from 2015 to 2020, reflecting efforts by District Attorney&nb...
Signature Event
While conducting research on facial recognition technology at the MIT Media Lab, Ghanaian-born Joy Buolamwini was startled to disc...