The Plaza Branch will close at 2 p.m. Saturday, October 19, due to building repairs.
Signature Event
Monday, July 30, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman as education reformer Virginia Walden Ford...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 29, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Local historian Joelouis Mattox discusses the history of Prospect Avenue and the life of one of the surrounding community’s leadin...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 26, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
A decade ago Ron Tanner and his then-girlfriend (now wife) turned a condemned former fraternity house in Baltimore, Maryland, int...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 26, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
In pursuing the Civil War, did Abraham Lincoln play fast and loose with civil liberties?
Pulitzer Prize winner Mark E. Neely, Jr....
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Kansas City Star founder William Rockhill Nelso...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Wilburn Stancil discusses the King James Bible, of which it has been written: “If everything else in our language should perish, it a...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 22, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Architect Richard Farnan explores six downtown Kansas City buildings that exhibit the symmetrical elegance of the art deco style....
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
LaDene Morton, author of The Waldo Story: The Home of Friendly Merchants, traces the history of the district from the Civ...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 15, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Since his first celluloid depiction in 1908, Jesse James has been the subject of more than 40 films and has been portrayed by the likes of Tyrone P...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 15, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Architect Richard Farnan explores six downtown Kansas City buildings that exhibit the symmetrical elegance of the art deco style....