All Library locations will be closed Monday, May 27, for Memorial Day.
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
The Kansas Historical Society’s Donna Rae Pearson talks about the 12 Black women who were plaintiffs in the landmark – and now 70-year-old – Brown vs....
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
French Emperor and military commander Napoleon Bonaparte continues to fascinate, even centuries after his death. Jonathan Abel, associate professor of...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 11, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Maya Angelou Book Award winner Taylor Byas’ latest poetry collection, I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times, discovers parallels between her journey and...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Timothy Westcott, Damon Grosvenor, and Martin Roberson of Park University’s George S. Robb Centre for the Study of the Great War discuss their researc...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
6:00pm
In Person
The Southeast Asian country of the Philippines became an American colony in 1898. Today it is a key ally in the Indo-Pacific. Geoff Babb, military his...
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
In the latest installment of the Library’s Turning Points series in partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, military histori...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Former Missouri archivist Gary Kremer, one of the state’s foremost historians, discusses the latest of his 12 books,...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of his book Designing Camelot: The Kennedy Restoration of the White House, historian James Archer...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
Richard Kurin, the distinguished scholar and ambassador-at-large of the Smithsonian Institution and founder of the Smithsonian Cultur...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Marist College journalism professor Kevin Lerner discusses his new book, Provoking the Press: (MORE) Magazine and the Cri...