Signature Event From Wettest Block to Wickedest City Sunday, June 6, 2021 3:00pm Online It was inevitable that the bawdy, alcohol-infused culture of 19th-century Kansas City would draw the ire of social reformers and prohibi... Read More
Signature Event Jim Bridger: Trailblazer of the American West Sunday, May 16, 2021 3:00pm Online Even among the iconic frontiersmen of the American West, Jim Bridger stands out as larger than life. Born in 1804 and orphaned at 1... Read More
Signature Event A Conversation with John Freeman Tuesday, November 19, 2019 6:30pm Central Library In Person There may be no more ardent disciple of literature today than John Freeman, founder of Freeman’s anthology of new writing and the... Read More
Signature Event A River in the City of Fountains Sunday, June 9, 2019 2:00pm Central Library In Person Founded as a port at the confluence of two great rivers, Kansas City has the waters of the Missouri running through its bloodstream—threading expre... Read More
Signature Event A Conversation With Tom Barbash Tuesday, April 16, 2019 6:30pm Central Library In Person With an award-winning novel, best-selling collection of short stories, and a nonfiction best-seller (On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howar... Read More
Signature Event On Writing, on Race Wednesday, February 20, 2019 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Two distinctive writers and educators join local novelist Whitney Terrell in a discussion of their craft and our nation’s fraught... Read More
Signature Event Benevolence, Moral Reform, Equality: Women's Activism in Kansas City Sunday, October 21, 2018 2:00pm Central Library In Person In a discussion of his new book Benevolence, Moral Reform, Equality: Women’s Activism in Kansas City, 1870 to 1940, author... Read More
Signature Event Prohibition in Kansas City Sunday, May 6, 2018 2:00pm Central Library In Person In a discussion of his new book Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice, local historian and blog... Read More
Signature Event For All Children Everywhere Sunday, January 28, 2018 2:00pm Central Library In Person In a discussion of his book For All Children Everywhere, a comprehensive history of Kansas City’s renowned Children’s Mercy... Read More
Signature Event A Conversation with John Freeman Tuesday, November 28, 2017 6:30pm Central Library In Person Award-winning writer, critic, and editor John Freeman joins Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell in a public conversation about Freeman’s... Read More