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Signature Event
Sunday, October 1, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
Drawing from copious research and interviews with principal participants for his new book Mafia Dreams: A True Crime Saga of Young Men at the End of a...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Internationally known photojournalist and writer B.A. Van Sise discusses his exhibition Invited to Life, featuring selected black-and-white portraits...
Exhibition
September 23, 2023
- December 9, 2023
Philip Heying sees Kansas’ vast, rolling Flint Hills grasslands not only for what they are today but also for the possibilities they hold for the futu...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
In a discussion of his book The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War, historian and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Da...
Signature Event
Saturday, September 16, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
In a special Missouri Valley Saturdays presentation, Suzanne Hogan, creator and producer of KCUR public radio’s A People’s History of Kansas City, dis...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
7:00pm
In Person
Note the 7 p.m. start time
Award-winning author, historian, podcast host, and New Yorker staffer Jill Lepore juxtaposes the political and personal...
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
Friday, September 8, 2023
8:45pm
In Person
Director Tim Burton’s second take on Michael Keaton’s Caped Crusader takes place in a wintry Gotham City, with The Penguin (Danny DeVito) attemptin...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
Is it better for elderly loved ones to age in place or be cared for in a nursing home? A panel of experts examines the emotionally fraught issue in a...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 31, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Amid the United States’ protracted involvement in Vietnam, its military confronted racial justice demands more directly than perhaps any other institu...