Central Library will not have the following services available on Saturday, October 12, due to the Heartland Book Fest: tech services, public computers and printing, and microfilm.
Signature Event
Thursday, August 30, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Seemingly austere and reportedly passive in the face of a national economic calamity, Herbert Hoover is somewhat of a political orphan. But biograp...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 30, 2012
6:00pm
In Person
Learn about all the requirements for becoming a poll worker. Participants will learn about the various poll worker categories: judges, voter assist...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Classic American labor posters were created with the dual purpose of entertaining and informing.
Now, just in time for Labor Day, Lin...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 26, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Civil War battlefields stubbornly conceal their secrets and their archaeology remains a buried, largely untapped source of historical information....
Signature Event
Thursday, August 23, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Margot McMillen, author of The Golden Lane, explores how a protest by thousands of women at the 1916 Democratic National Con...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with William Clarke Quantrill, portrayed by...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Twenty years ago James B. Steele co-authored America: What Went Wrong, which argued that the middle class was shrinking,...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 9, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Dr. Wes Crenshaw Lawrence family psychologist and author of Dear Dr. Wes: Real Life Advice for Teens and Real Life...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 9, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Many historians have written about the Watergate conspiracy. But can a novelist throw new light on this traumatic moment in American political hist...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 9, 2012
3:00pm
In Person
Representatives of the Kansas City Board of Election Commissioners delve into the history of the Republican and Democratic partie...