All Library locations will open late Tuesday, July 9 at 10:30 a.m. due to staff training.
Thursday, May 7, 2015
6:30pm
Tired of an unfulfilling life in Kansas City, Patrick Dobson left his job and set off on foot across the Great Plains. He arrived ove...
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Among our “greatest generation” was a succession of U.S. presidents who were informed and defined by World War II. Harry Truman, who oversaw the end o...
Monday, May 4, 2015
6:30pm
The Kansas City Royals were on their way to a fourth 100-loss season in five years when Dayton Moore took over as general manager in...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The ranch house became an integral part of the vocabulary of the U.S. housing market after World War II, when the demand for a single-family home reac...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
6:30pm
Aristocratic and sophisticated, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, the wife of Theodore Roosevelt, ran the White House with a sure hand and figured prominently i...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
6:30pm
LaShonda Katrice Barnett’s debut novel—about a black female journalist escaping the early-1900s Jim Crow laws of the South and...
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
6:30pm
Women comprise about half of the U.S. labor force, including half of all professional and management positions. But they account for fewer than 15 per...
Sunday, March 29, 2015
2:00pm
The Library’s ninth season of Script-in-Hand performances, featuring the Metropolitan Ensemble Th...