All Library locations will open late Tuesday, July 9 at 10:30 a.m. due to staff training.
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Bingham (1811-1879) - portrayed by actor Robert Gibby Brand - returns for the Library's popular Meet the Past series...
Signature Event
Monday, July 30, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman as education reformer Virginia Walden Ford...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 26, 2012
6:30pm
In pursuing the Civil War, did Abraham Lincoln play fast and loose with civil liberties?
Pulitzer Prize winner Mark E. Neely, Jr.,...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 22, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Architect Richard Farnan explores six downtown Kansas City buildings that exhibit the symmetrical elegance of the art deco...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 15, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Architect Richard Farnan explores six downtown Kansas City buildings that exhibit the symmetrical elegance of the art deco...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 12, 2012
6:30pm
How could a president have won a war and lost a re-election? For George H.W. Bush, being Commander-in-Chief during Desert Storm was not enough....
Signature Event
Thursday, July 12, 2012
3:00pm
The campaigning is over. The polls have closed. The voters have retreated to their living rooms to catch the results on television. But for election...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 28, 2012
6:30pm
Architects who helped design Kansas City International Airport – Tom Nelson, Bob Berkebile, Vernon Reed...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
6:30pm
Historian Jeff Broadwater argues that no single figure can tell us more about the origins of the American republic than our fourth pr...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 21, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Flamboyant, confident, and controversial, Edith Bolling Wilson was not your traditional First Lady. After her husband, Woodrow Wilson, suffered a debi...