All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Following the conclusion of the Mexican-American War in 1848, the border between the two countries remained in flux, a flexible barrier that restricte...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 21, 2013
2:00pm
Arguments may ensue on the merits of individual barbecue joints, but no one disputes the extent that the “culture” of B-B-Q has helped define everyday...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 18, 2013
6:30pm
Military historian Terry Beckenbaugh examines the failed 1863 attack on the Confederacy’s Fort Wagner on Charleston Harbor – an incid...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 14, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
In the 1950s and ‘60s, Kansas City was a heavily segregated town. African-Americans were limited even in which city facilities they could use. For ins...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
The loss of America was an unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and politica...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
6:30pm
As the oldest and favorite daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph was well educated, known on two continents...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 24, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Historian Ethan S. Rafuse examines a tumultuous year in the history of the Army of the Potomac, when Gen. “Fighting” Joe Hooker took...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 20, 2013
2:00pm
Biographer Robert Farnsworth discusses his new eBook about the life, death, and legacy of Leon Jordan, a one-time po...
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Was he an anti-Semite and a Nazi sympathizer? An appeaser and isolationist?
For all his public activities – financier, film producer, kingmak...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 2, 2012
2:00pm
Architectural historian Keith Eggener looks at the heritage of architect Louis Curtiss (1865-1924), often described...