The North-East branch will be closed Monday, July 22 for staff training.
Signature Event
Thursday, March 6, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Decades before Oprah, Dr. Phil, and today’s innumerable gurus peddling surefire plans for bettering ourselves, Missourian Dale Carnegie...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
6:30pm
Due to a quirk in the calendar in the year 1849, one school of thought contends that Missourian David Rice Atchison deserves to be co...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
John B. Judis, senior editor at The New Republic, examines the half-century of raging conflict between Jews and Arabs—...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 20, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Americans are familiar with Civil War land battles—but much less so with the war at sea, from the development of ironclad warships and submarine...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 16, 2014
2:00pm
Murderers. Mob bosses. Anarchists. Bootleggers. Thieves. They’ve all found a home at the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, regarded for many y...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 19, 2014
2:00pm
Trumpeter Miles Davis once said: "You can tell the history of jazz in four words: Louis Armstrong. Charlie Parker."
Saxophone virtuoso Charlie "Bir...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 8, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
By 1940, Kansas City authorities had finally deposed “Boss Tom” Pendergast. In the spring of that year, teams of laborers from the Works Progress A...
Signature Event
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Even in death, Britain’s “Iron Lady,” Margaret Thatcher, divides and polarizes.
Victor Bailey, Distinguished Professor of M...
Signature Event
Friday, November 22, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
On the 50th anniversary of one of America’s most traumatic events, historians from the University of Kansas – Theodore A. Wilson,...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 21, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
If George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are the saints in America’s civil religion, then the 29th president, Warren G. Harding, is o...