The Plaza Branch will close at 2 p.m. Saturday, October 19, due to building repairs.
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Americans view the Korean conflict as an American war in which the United States lost nearly 38,000 men. But above all else it was a war between Korea...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Isn’t it about time for the South to once again secede from the Union? Comic travel writer Chuck Thompson thinks so, arguing that the...
Signature Event
Monday, September 24, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Reporter/pundit Eleanor Clift joins Kansas City Public Library Director Crosby Kemper III for a public conversation...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 23, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
No president since the founders has done more to shape American government than Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Alan Brinkley arg...
Signature Event
Friday, September 21, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
As a member of the Black Panther Party, Jamal Joseph advocated burning Columbia University to the ground. Forty years later he&rsq...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 20, 2012
6:30pm
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Thomas Jefferson, as portrayed by Patri...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 20, 2012
6:00pm
In Person
Want to be prepared for the presidential election? Learn about voter deadlines, provisional ballots, new voter ID cards, ID’s required at the polls...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
The Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862 is the bloodiest day in American military history. Now, exactly 150 years later, a panel of historians...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 16, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
In 1911 art-minded Missourians hired the nation’s leading artists to decorate the new Missouri statehouse, and the works they created were consider...
Signature Event
Saturday, September 15, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Actor and author John Lithgow offers an entertaining afternoon of insight, anecdotes, and readings.
Lithgow, a Tony and Emmy award...