The Westport and Bluford branches will be closed Wednesday, July 10 for staff training.
Signature Event
Sunday, May 13, 2012
2:00pm
The sixth season of Script-in-Hand performances by the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre continues on Mother’s Day with...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 12, 2012
2:00pm
Ina P. Montgomery tells the stories of unknown “sheroes,” African American women who toiled in obscurity and rarely made headlines, b...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 6, 2012
2:30pm
R. Stephen Green, newly-named superintendent of the Kansas City Public Schools, continues his series of public conversations. He fiel...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 3, 2012
3:00pm
Whether an election is about picking a president or passing a tax increase, citizens may find themselves asking: “Does my vote really count?
Absolu...
Signature Event
Monday, April 16, 2012
6:30pm
The British Museum’s Roger Bland looks at the successes of the U.K.’s Treasure Act and Portable Antiquities Scheme, legislation aimed...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
The first vice president to occupy the White House after the death of the incumbent, John Tyler was derided by critics as “His Accidency.” Yet histori...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 29, 2012
6:30pm
On the blog: Read an intervi...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
6:30pm
Attica Locke discusses her novel Black Water Rising, set in Houston in the early 1980s. Former campus radical Jay Porter is...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
6:30pm
James N. Giglio describes John F. Kennedy as “the most medicated, one of the most courageous, and perhaps the most self-absorbed of o...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 18, 2012
2:00pm
On the 100th anniversary of the creation of Tarzan and John Carter of Mars, John Tibbetts looks at the career of fantasy writer Ed...