The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Sunday, November 12, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
Art Lujin, a former manager of aircraft engineering during a nearly 26-year career with TWA and now a guide at Kansas City’s TWA Museum, recounts the...
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
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
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
Sunday, August 6, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book The Girl with the Agate Eyes: The Untold Story of Mattie Howard, Kansas City’s Queen of the Underworld...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 18, 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...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 2, 2023
2:00pm
Online
Tapping new resources and research tools, local historian Michael Sweeney has produced the first new historical assessment in 20 year...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 11, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
There remains an aura around the Kansas City Monarchs, one of the most famous and successful teams in baseball’s Negro Leagues. Drawing from his book...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Military historian and Civil War authority Angela M. Riotto looks back on the pivotal Union victory at Vicksburg in 1863 – finally ac...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 21, 2023
2:00pm
Online
West Bottoms Whiskey Co. founder Alex Lindsey examines...