Signature Event Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell Thursday, July 9, 2020 6:30pm Online In a discussion of his new, carefully researched book Tombstone, best-selling author Tom Clavin revisits Tu... Read More
Signature Event KC Parks Engage: Reexamining J.C. Nichols Wednesday, June 24, 2020 2:00pm In Person Where are you on the complicated legacy of Kansas City developer J.C. Nichols? Should his name be removed from the parkway running to and alongside... Read More
Signature Event Midwestern Strange Thursday, June 18, 2020 6:30pm In Person The West Coast celebrates Bigfoot and the East Coast has Champy, the purported lake monster claimed by both New York and Vermont. But Wisconsi... Read More
Signature Event College Sports in the COVID-19 Era Tuesday, June 16, 2020 6:30pm Online As America’s major spectator sports plot a return from their COVID-19-induced hiatus, reactions range from elation to apprehension to … wh... Read More
Signature Event Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project Tuesday, June 16, 2020 6:30pm Online For well more than 30 years, starting with the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979 and ending with the Sandy Hook school massacre late in 2012, Marion S... Read More
Signature Event Afropessimism Tuesday, June 9, 2020 6:30pm Online What has made anti-black violence such a predominant feature of life not only in the U.S. but around the world? Why does race seem to color almost... Read More
Signature Event Night of the Assassins Wednesday, June 3, 2020 6:30pm Online Germany’s defeat in World War II was inevitable by late 1943, but Adolf Hitler supposedly had an audacious plan for softening the final terms: disp... Read More
Signature Event Indie Lens Pop-Up film: Eating Up Easter Tuesday, May 26, 2020 7:00pm Online Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is more than just a picture postcard of iconic stone statues. It’s a microcosm of a planet in flux. Native R... Read More
Signature Event The Soul of an Entrepreneur Thursday, May 21, 2020 6:30pm Online We’ve been beguiled over the past decade by a romanticized, Silicon Valley-inspired take on entrepreneurship, glorifying its practitioners as darin... Read More
Signature Event Childhood in the COVID-19 Era Thursday, May 14, 2020 6:30pm Online The Library begins a series of programs exploring issues related to COVID-19 with an examination of the immediate and long-term effects that the pa... Read More