All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Sunday, July 17, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
The 1976 Republican National Convention in Kansas City was historic – the last major U.S. political convention in which the presidential nomination wa...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
6:30pm
The question may be met with chagrin by traditionalists, but to some, the identity of William Shakespeare is not positively decided.
They have tro...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 10, 2016
6:30pm
Elmer Boillot and Jesse Lauck designed houses in the Coleman Highlands, Sunset Hills and Country Club District neighborhoods, including The Walnuts. T...
Signature Event
Monday, June 20, 2016
1:30pm
In Person
Mondays in June, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s four-part series of inside-the-play presentations focuses on its summ...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 12, 2016
2:00pm
Author, photographer, and local historian Bruce Mathews discusses Charles A. Smith’s work in the first installment of the Library’s 2...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
6:30pm
When librarians in a township in northern France began wondering late in 2014 whether their centuries-old book of Shakespeare’s works might be a rare...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
6:30pm
His comedies, histories, and tragedies have been performed worldwide for more than 400 years, but William Shakespeare’s personal life remains somethin...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 26, 2016
6:30pm
Take Shakespeare’s mistaken-identity farce, The Comedy of Errors. Give it a modern, hip-hop flavor. And you get The Bomb-itty of...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 22, 2016
2:00pm
In the fall of 1918, more than a million U.S. soldiers faced a better trained and more experienced German army on the Western Front of World War I. Th...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
6:30pm
While Shakespeare wasn’t a composer, he made his love of music apparent. “How sweet sour music is,” he wrote for instance in Richard II, “(w)hen time...