Signature Events - Video | Kansas City Public Library

An Evening with Ari Shapiro

Ari Shapiro

June 13, 2024

Sputnik and the Race to Control Space

Sean N. Kalic

June 11, 2024

Beautiful States of Mind: A Father and Daughters’ Pilgrimage to All 50 States

Chelan David

June 4, 2024

My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music’s Black Past, Present, and Future

Alice Randall

May 28, 2024

The Women of Brown: 70th Anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education

Donna Rae Pearson

May 21, 2024

The Rise and Fall of Napoleon Bonaparte

Jonathan Abel

May 14, 2024

Affordable Housing

Gregg Colburn

April 24, 2024

I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times

Taylor Byas and Melissa Ferrer Civil

April 11, 2024

The Kansas City Royals: An Illustrated Timeline

Matt Stewart and Frank White

April 1, 2024

Credit Where Credit Is Overdue: The World War I Valor Medal Review

Timothy Westcott, Damon Grosvenor, Martin Roberson

March 26, 2024

The Stadium Tax Debate: Keeping the Chiefs, Royals at Home Sweet Home

Nick Haines, Sly James, Becky Nace, Patrick Tuohey, Gary Sarnoff, Sarah Tourville

March 19, 2024

Carrie Westlake Whitney: Remembering a Library (and Kansas City) Cornerstone

Jason Roe

March 14, 2024

Gun Country

Andrew C. McKevitt

January 18, 2024

Visions of America

Crosby Kemper III

January 11, 2024

Show Me Love: Female Impersonation and Drag in Kansas City

Lucas Hilderbrand

December 17, 2023

Cultivating Good Community Vibes: How Libraries and Parks Bring Us Together

Tommi Laitio

December 5, 2023

This Place of Promise: A Historian's Perspective on 200 Years of Missouri History

Gary Kremer

November 28, 2023

Bobbling Through History

Phil Sklar

November 2, 2023

Crisis in the Middle East: Understanding the Arab-Israeli Conflict

John D. Hosler, Brian L. Steed

November 1, 2023

Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It

M. Nolan Gray

October 25, 2023

Provoking the Press

Kevin Lerner

October 24, 2023

The Cuban Missile Crisis: Catalyst for Change in the Cold War

Gates M. Brown

October 10, 2023

Invited to Life: Artist Talk

B.A. Van Sise

September 27, 2023

The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War

David Nasaw

September 20, 2023