The Plaza Branch will close at 2 p.m. Saturday, October 19, due to building repairs.
Signature Event
Sunday, December 9, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
British actor Pip Utton performs his one-man show about Charles Dickens, presenting the writer as a supremely contented man now that...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 6, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Ever get the feeling that Christmas has morphed into something it was never supposed to be?
How did a celebration of joy, togetherness, l...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 6, 2012
4:00pm
In Person
Organizers for WikiKC – a collaborative, community-driven effort to share local knowledge about Kansas City – will be on hand at the...
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
In Person
Architectural historian Keith Eggener looks at the heritage of architect Louis Curtiss (1865-1924), often describ...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 29, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
In the late 19th century statesman Otto von Bismarck unified Germany while embodying everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture. Biographer...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
A specialist in the Atomic Age, Michael Scheibach examines how Americans in the 1940s, ‘50s, and ‘60s dealt with the threat of nuc...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Author Robert W. Merry wraps up the presidential election – and the Hail to the Chiefs series – with a fresh, playful, and challen...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 17, 2012
7:30pm
In Person
The plays and poetry of William Shakespeare have inspired some of the world’s most beautiful music.
This performance by members of the...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 15, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Why study Freud? Harvard Medical School’s Edison K. Miyawaki, author of What to Read on Love, not Sex: Freud, Fiction, an...