The Plaza Branch will close at 2 p.m. Saturday, October 19, due to building repairs.
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Anthony Swofford's new memoir, Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails, chronicles how in the years after the success...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
The result of uncontrolled plowing on the Great Plains, the Dust Bowl of the 1930s turned prairies into deserts and unleashed a pattern of massive...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 11, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
For prize-winning geographer James Shortridge, Kansas City is more than the sum of cultural icons like barbecue, jazz, and sports...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 8, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Historian Terry Beckenbaugh maintains that the Civil War was inevitable given the failure of the nation’s political leadership to...
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Benjamin Franklin was an inventor, author, politician, postmaster, and civic activist.
But noted economist and Franklin biographer Mark Sko...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 1, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
With his thick spectacles, big teeth, and boundless energy, President Theodore Roosevelt was a cartoonist’s dream subject. Rick Marschall...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Think you know Charles Dickens? Help celebrate the bicentennial of the great Victorian novelist’s birth with a special performance by...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
11:00am
In Person
In the waning days of the 2012 political campaign, KCUR-FM and the Library join forces to present a live surrogate Presidential de...
Signature Event
Monday, October 29, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
For his latest book Thomas Frank, the best-selling author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? and The Wrecking Crew: How C...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 25, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
For all his accomplishments and advanced thinking, Thomas Jefferson could not get beyond his own limited perspective in matters of race. Drawing from...