The North-East branch will be closed Monday, July 22 for staff training.
Signature Event
Thursday, October 2, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
The image of fierce, all-female Amazons — barbarian archers on horseback who gloried in fighting, hunting, and sexual freedom — has end...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 28, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Kansas City’s Union Station opened 100 years ago next month, a grand, 850,000-square-foot edifice that saw as many as 678,000-plus rail passengers...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Jen Mann is, first, a suburban Johnson County, Kansas, wife and mother of two and, second, a witty, biting writer whose blog, Peo...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
An estimated 225,000 adults in Kansas City function at the lowest literacy level, denied some of the simplest and most important moments in life be...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 21, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Caught between the beauty of his grandchildren and grief over a friend’s death, Frank Schaeffer found himself simultaneously not beli...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
The behind-the-scenes lives of African American clergymen and their families make up a major sub-genre of contemporary urban fiction. To date, most...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
At 7 in the morning on February 21, 1916, the ground in northern France began to shake. For the next 10 hours, some 1,200 German guns showered shel...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 24, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
America is a country built by thinkers on a foundation of ideas. Alongside classic works of philosophy and ethics, however, our presidents have bee...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 19, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Jason Kendall knows baseball inside and out. Emphasis on the inside.
The former Kansas City Royals catcher, whose career...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
George F. Kennan (1904-2005) was America’s most respected foreign policy thinker of the 20th century, a man who advised presidents, raised alarms a...