The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
6:30pm
Tim Rives, supervisory archivist and deputy director of the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, and Curator William S...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 19, 2019
2:00pm
Mexican immigrants who settled in Kansas City’s westside community in the early 1900s faced discrimination, poverty, and a lack of social services. In...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 16, 2019
6:30pm
Valiant knights. Chaste virgins. Bawdy widows. Our notions of gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages tend to come from Hollywood and the History Chan...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 9, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
We’re well acquainted with Abraham Lincoln the country lawyer, the principled statesman, the revered martyr. In a discussion of his new historical nov...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 28, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
In many ways, Kansas City’s early history is that of a stereotypical frontier town. Native Americans, pioneers, and cowboys are indelibly linked to th...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Louis Galambos, a Johns Hopkins University historian who edited the papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower, discusses his new book on Ike, ex...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 11, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
The roots of today’s political fractiousness lie, in part, in a four-day gathering in Houston more than 40 years ago. The National Women’s Conference...
Signature Event
Saturday, March 30, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
Artist Benjamin Wills has come to understand what a few lines in a letter – or just the arrival of mail – can mean to someone behind...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 10, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
Commemorating Women’s History Month, University of Missouri-Kansas City social historian Sandra Enríquez identifies...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
6:30pm
One of the nation’s top military historians, John McManus of the Missouri University of Science and Technology, examines the influenc...