Signature Events - Video | Kansas City Public Library

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

Seven Days in September 1814

Richard V. Barbuto

September 12, 2023

An Army Afire

Beth Bailey

August 31, 2023

Ordinary Equality

Kate Kelly

August 24, 2023

Conflict and Crisis: Iran’s About-Face

Brian L. Steed, Gates Brown, Frank J. Klimas

August 8, 2023

Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

Leah Rothstein

August 2, 2023

1918: Turning Points in an Attritional War

Shawn Faulkner

July 18, 2023

Henry Perry: Kansas City’s Barbecue King

Michael Sweeney

July 2, 2023

Kansas City's Montgall Avenue: Black Leaders and the Street They Called Home

Margie Carr

June 22, 2023

Restrengthening Democracy

Valerie Lemmie

June 8, 2023

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