All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Thursday, May 7, 2015
6:30pm
Tired of an unfulfilling life in Kansas City, Patrick Dobson left his job and set off on foot across the Great Plains. He arrived ove...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Among our “greatest generation” was a succession of U.S. presidents who were informed and defined by World War II. Harry Truman, who oversaw the end o...
Signature Event
Monday, May 4, 2015
6:30pm
The Kansas City Royals were on their way to a fourth 100-loss season in five years when Dayton Moore took over as general manager in...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 2, 2015
12:00am
Celebrate and discover the amazing world...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The ranch house became an integral part of the vocabulary of the U.S. housing market after World War II, when the demand for a single-family home reac...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
6:30pm
Aristocratic and sophisticated, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, the wife of Theodore Roosevelt, ran the White House with a sure hand and figured prominently i...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
6:30pm
LaShonda Katrice Barnett’s debut novel—about a black female journalist escaping the early-1900s Jim Crow laws of the South and...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
6:30pm
Women comprise about half of the U.S. labor force, including half of all professional and management positions. But they account for fewer than 15 per...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 29, 2015
2:00pm
The Library’s ninth season of Script-in-Hand performances, featuring the Metropolitan Ensemble Th...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
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