The Plaza Branch will close at 2 p.m. Saturday, October 19, due to building repairs.
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Long before the Civil War began violence was commonplace along the Missouri-Kansas border. There a recurring cycle of robbery, arson, torture, murd...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 29, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
When police in Ohio raided Dollree Mapp’s home looking for evidence in a bombing, all they found were some “lascivious books.” Mapp appealed her porno...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
She is no longer a household name, but during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration Frances Perkins was one of America’s most inf...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
4:00pm
In Person
Join us as we commemorate one of the landmark events in the civil rights movement.
Library staff will lead a march around the block carrying signs...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 25, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
Steve McDowell and Rick Schladweiler of the architectural firm BNIM and Kansas City Ballet Executive Director...
Signature Event
Friday, August 23, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Former Kansas City Star columnist Steve Penn joins U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver II for a discussi...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 22, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
In 1937 the German ocean liner St. Louis set sail from Hamburg to Cuba. Aboard were nearly 1,000 Jews hoping to escape the Nazis. But midw...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
On the 150th anniversary of William Clarke Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Tony R. Mullis of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
The August Dateline: Washington event at the Kansas City Public Library was supposed to be about outer space. Just outer space. Host...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 18, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
William Quantrill’s August 21, 1863 Confederate raid on Lawrence, Kansas, left nearly 200 men and boys dead and the city in flames. Film expert...