Signature Events - Video | Kansas City Public Library

At Vicksburg: Lessons Learned in the Pursuit of Victory

Angela M. Riotto

June 6, 2023

Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain

Andrew McCarthy

May 22, 2023

The Spirit of the West Bottoms

Alex Lindsey

May 21, 2023

IDEAL Entrepreneurship

Kemet Coleman, La’Nae Robinson, La’Nesha Frazier

May 18, 2023

Xi Jinping and Taiwan: Where Is China Headed, and Why?

Geoff Babb, John Modinger, David C. McCaughrin

May 9, 2023

Taking It to the Streets: Rethinking Mobility in America’s Cities

Peter Norton

April 27, 2023

An Ordinary Wonder

Buki Papillon, winner of the 2022 Maya Angelou Book Award

April 12, 2023

U.S. Grant and the Battle of the Wilderness

Harry S. Laver

April 11, 2023

The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America

Shawn Rochester, Gwen Grant

March 30, 2023

Poetry, Stories, Giving Voice to Incarcerated People

Brian Daldorph, Barbara Stuber, Samantha Pettus

March 16, 2023

1979, the Year That Changed the Middle East

Brian L. Steed

March 7, 2023

Ukraine Today

John Herbst, Mark Wilcox

March 1, 2023

The Culture and Politics of Rap

Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar

February 19, 2023

The Challenge of Translating the Bible

Robert Alter

February 16, 2023

IDEAL Entrepreneurship

February 7, 2023

Hindsight, Insight: Four Former Mayors Appraise KC

Emanuel Cleaver, Kay Barnes, Mark Funkhouser, Sly James, Nick Haines

January 26, 2023

The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

Jeff Pearlman

January 24, 2023

Bread for My Enemies: Feeding Germany in the Wake of World War II

David W. Mills

January 10, 2023

The Education of Corporal John Musgrave: Vietnam and Its Aftermath

John Musgrave

December 1, 2022

Hollywood vs. History: 'Black Hawk Down'

Dirk Ringgenberg

November 14, 2022

Service Under Stress: Nursing in the Era of COVID-19

Patrick Robinson

November 9, 2022

Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

Maggie Haberman

November 2, 2022

Genesis of Command: The Leadership Origins of Ulysses S. Grant

Harry S. Laver

November 1, 2022

Segregation, Redlining, and Opportunity Hoarding: A Case for Reform

Sheryll Cashin

October 27, 2022