The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Monday, October 3, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Carlos Eire gave the world a moving and definitive look into life as an exile in his first memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana: Con...
Signature Event
Monday, September 26, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
The Salem Witch Trials remain one of the more astonishing chapters in American history. The Massachusetts village was gripped in hysteria in the late...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 15, 2016
6:30pm
This event has been canceled at the speaker’s request. We will make every effort to notify interested persons when and i...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
6:30pm
America’s longest war began with an Apache raid and kidnapping of an Arizona rancher’s 12-year-old stepson in 1861. It would last more than a quarter...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 25, 2016
6:30pm
Irene Tinker helped compile and edit Developing Power: How Women Transformed International Development, a c...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
6:30pm
With the new novel The Cosmopolitans by lesbian author and activist Sarah Schulman, the New York-based Femi...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
6:30pm
From racist cartoons and spray-painted anti-Semitic symbols to protest chants and signs condemning gays, hate speech has a long and perplexing history...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 21, 2016
2:00pm
Faith healer? Fraud? Or both?
The enigma that was Francis Schlatter emerged in the American West in the late 1800s. In looks, he resembled popular...
Signature Event
Saturday, August 20, 2016
10:30am
Start your MidAmeriCon II day at the Kansas City Public Library with a presentation by science fiction/fantasy authors Beth Cato and...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 18, 2016
6:30pm
Kansas City remembers Charles O. Finley, the unconventional owner of baseball’s Athletics when they made their home here in the ’60s, for parading a m...