The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Thursday, November 16, 2017
6:30pm
Former ambassador David F. Lambertson, who served in Saigon in the mid-1960s as a member of the American embassy’s political secti...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Columbia University professor and writer Helen Benedict and the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Whitney Terrell...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 2, 2017
6:30pm
As the Vietnam War escalated in the 1960s, Hollywood was struggling financially and the longtime studio system was collapsing. Into the vacuum step...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
6:30pm
During the Vietnam conflict, battles on the homefront went beyond anti-war protests. Activists gathered in support of many cultural movements: civi...
Signature Event
Friday, October 20, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Noted explorer, anthropologist, and best-selling author Wade Davis illuminates the dangers inherent in challenging the Mount Everest...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 19, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
For many U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, music was the connection between battlefront and homefront and helped them cope with the complexities of the war...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book, Mark Bowden (author of the best-seller Black Hawk Down) details one of...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 12, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
The Vietnam War still has the power to divide Americans between those for and against it—and just as surely, between those who remember the era fir...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Annie Presley, co-author of the award-winning book Read This… When I’m Dead, joins us at the Plaza Library...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Steve Paul, a longtime writer and editor at The Kansas City Star, examines a transformative time in the life of an iconic wr...