Signature Event A Reader’s Guide to Survival in Auschwitz with Shelly Cline and Kaite Stover Thursday, January 27, 2022 12:00pm Online Shelly Cline, historian and director of education at the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, discusses... Read More
Signature Event Poison for Breakfast Tuesday, December 7, 2021 6:30pm Online Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, discusses his new stand-alone, all ages book, Poison for Breakfast. Unl... Read More
Signature Event The Last Liberal Republican Monday, December 6, 2021 6:30pm Online Richard Nixon lamented that he would be remembered only for Watergate and warming relations with China. He wasn’t wrong – about the wreckage of Wat... Read More
Signature Event Literary Alchemist: The Writing Life of Evan S. Connell Wednesday, December 1, 2021 6:30pm Online Even outside of his native Kansas City, Evan S. Connell is regarded as a modern master in literary circles. However, until now no one has written e... Read More
Signature Event The Presidency of George W. Bush Tuesday, November 9, 2021 6:30pm Online Have we been too hard on George W. Bush? Drawing in part from a raft of newly available archival records, noted historian... Read More
Signature Event I Keep Trying to Catch His Eye Wednesday, October 27, 2021 6:30pm Online What none of us want to so much as think about, Ivan Maisel and his family endured six years ago. Not long after his 21st birthday, w... Read More
Signature Event The Overlooked Jewish Resistance Wednesday, October 27, 2021 11:00am Online While accounts of Jewish resistance during World War II tend to focus on armed uprisings in ghettos and guerilla warfare and sabotage in the forest... Read More
Signature Event Writers for Readers 2021: An Evening With Patrick Radden Keefe Wednesday, October 20, 2021 6:00pm Online Writers for Readers, annually one of Kansas City’s premier literary events, returns vitrually with a special lineup featuring celebrated author P... Read More
Signature Event The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together Tuesday, October 19, 2021 6:30pm Online Drawing from her bestselling book The Sum of Us, strategist and political commentator Heather McGhee examin... Read More
Signature Event Sharice’s Big Voice Monday, October 11, 2021 6:30pm Online Rep. Sharice Davis, in her second precedent-setting term in the U.S. House from Kansas’ 3rd District, discusses her new picture-book... Read More