The Plaza Branch will close at 2 p.m. Saturday, October 19, due to building repairs.
Signature Event
Thursday, August 15, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
The 1869 killing of a bank cashier in Gallatin, Missouri, has long been considered the first in a long line of robberies by Jesse and Frank James. But...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 11, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
Architect Todd Achelpohl of infrastructure solutions firm HNTB and Jonathan Kemper, president of the Kansas City...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 8, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Marketing studies have shown that, like other consumers, beer drinkers often make purchases based not just on taste, but often on the packaging an...
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, August 4, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
Architectural historian & preservation consultant Cydney Millstein examines how the TWA Headquarters Building at 18th and Main street...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 4, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
Author Robert Rebein explores what it means to grow up in, leave, and ultimately return to the iconic Western town of Dodge City i...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Over decades, Mexican film producer Jacque Gelman and his wife, Natasha Gelman, built one of the world’s most significant private collections of Mexic...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Library director Crosby Kemper III holds a public conversation with NCTQ President Kate Walsh about the recently...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 25, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
As the man behind Communism, Karl Marx has been revered as a prophet and blamed for some of the darkest atrocities of modern times. In his new biograp...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Homer Plessy—a man of seven-eighths Caucasian descent and one-eighth African descent who was nevertheless considered black under Louisiana law—boar...