The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Thursday, September 21, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Sabermetrics savant Bill James applies his research and analytical skills to true-crime solving, making a convincing case that a more...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 14, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Harvard University’s Danielle Allen discusses her searing family memoir, which details her younger cousin’s tragic arc from aspiring...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein makes the case that the racial divide i...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 25, 2017
2:00pm
Infamous characters and sensational incidents abounded in the Ozarks immediately after the Civil War and well into the 20th century. The mining distri...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In Kansas City and across the country, anticipation is building for the total solar eclipse of August 21. It parallels the nation’s fervor in 1878, wh...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
A tragic chapter in America’s westward expansion turned sensationalistic when some members of the stranded and starving Donner-Reed party of 1846 bega...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Veteran British director and master acting teacher Ian Wooldridge has helmed more than 100 stage productions, including The Tempest a...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of one of the year’s most heralded books, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, author Davi...
Signature Event
Monday, May 8, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Yaa Gyasi’s emotionally powerful Homegoing continues to resound a little more than a year after its publica...