All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Thursday, April 28, 2016
11:00am
Clarina Nichols died more than a quarter-century before Kansas became the eighth state to grant women the right to vote in 1912. But the dedicated ref...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
6:30pm
Winston Churchill wasn’t overtly religious. But he subscribed to divine destiny, telling a classmate at age 16 that he foresaw a day when “London will...
Signature Event
Monday, April 25, 2016
6:30pm
Everyone is susceptible to implicit bias – unconscious attitudes or stereotypes that affect judgments about others based on their race, ethnicity, app...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 21, 2016
6:30pm
When The Washington Post asked 162 political science scholars earlier this year which American president should be added to Mount Rushmore, t...
Signature Event
Monday, April 11, 2016
6:30pm
Libraries were an essential part of life for Jane Austen – and for the characters in her novels. She made ample use of her father’s collection of more...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
6:30pm
Philanthropy is essential to making America what it is. Individuals, foundations, and businesses donate more than $360 billion annually, underwriting...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
6:30pm
Seventy years ago, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson called the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg “the greatest tribute power has e...
Signature Event
Monday, April 4, 2016
6:30pm
Frank White was one of the Kansas City Royals’ anchors the last time they were defending World Series champions – 30 years ago. He we...
Signature Event
Friday, April 1, 2016
6:30pm
The 1920s and '30s marked Kansas City's transformation from a rough "cowtown" into a vibrant, modern city – despite such hindrances a...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
6:30pm
Among the things Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants left behind when they fled Kandahar after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was a cache of...