The Plaza Branch will close at 2 p.m. Saturday, October 19, due to building repairs.
Signature Event
Sunday, May 6, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Historian Donald R. Hickey, author of The Rockets’ Red Glare: An Illustrated History of The War of 1812, di...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 3, 2012
3:00pm
In Person
Whether an election is about picking a president or passing a tax increase, citizens may find themselves asking: “Does my vote really count?...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 26, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Short story writer and novelist Adam Johnson discusses his work in a public conversation with local author Whitney Terrell...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Husband and wife team Monroe and Jean Dodd take a time-traveling journey across the Sunflower State with their new b...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City author Linda Rodriguez discusses her debut novel Every Last Secret, a murder mystery in which b...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 22, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
The Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre continues its sixth season of Script-in-Hand performances with Ntozake Shange’s...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Author Christopher B. Leinberger describes how government policy over the last 60 years – driven by the auto and oil industry – has e...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
In April 1862 a Union force under Ulysses S. Grant and a Confederate army led by Albert Sidney Johnston clashed in southwestern Tennessee in the Ba...
Signature Event
Monday, April 16, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Irish writer Anne Enright’s The Forgotten Waltz is the followup to her international bestseller The Gathering, winn...
Signature Event
Monday, April 16, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
The British Museum’s Roger Bland looks at the successes of the U.K.’s Treasure Act and Portable Antiquities Scheme, legislation aimed...