The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Whitney Terrell’s novel, The King of Kings County, remains a landmark examination of white flight and th...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
History books cast William Clark as a wilderness-braving, 1800s action hero, a partner with Meriwether Lewis in the nearly two-and-a-half-year expl...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Surveys show that the percentage of Americans with libertarian leanings—preferring to maximize individual rights and minimize the role of gov...
Signature Event
Friday, June 19, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David McCullough explores the lives, trials, and ultimate triumph of aviation pioneers...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 11, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Revolutions historically have come in waves, and the world appears to be riding one now – from the Arab Spring to anti-austerity protests in Greece to...
Signature Event
Monday, May 11, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The world is blowing up, seemingly confronted by a violent new crisis every day: the bloody implosion of Iraq and Syria, the East-West standoff in...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 16, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Sifting through the stacks of her local library in Hamburg, Germany, Jennifer Teege happened upon a book that first fascinated and th...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Thanks to Shakespeare, Julius Caesar’s stabbing is the most famous assassination in history. But what actually happened on March 15, 44 B.C., is ev...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 26, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City novelist and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with author Elizabeth Ga...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 6, 2014
6:30pm
Kansas City author and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with one of the country’s most acc...