All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Sunday, February 14, 2016
1:00pm
In Person
Islamism – or political Islam, the movement to infuse Islam in all areas of life – is hardly a 21st century phenomenon. Winston S. Churchill was a...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
6:30pm
Kansas City’s Barkley advertising agency hatched the enormously successful “Two Guys” campaign for Sonic Drive-In a little more than 12 years ago, let...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 24, 2016
2:00pm
Was the December 29, 1890, massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, an act of war? U.S. government officials deemed it such. Or was the killing of some...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 17, 2016
2:00pm
The Library kicks off its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and launches more than six months of...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 6, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
No other resident of Kansas City, past or present, has achieved the worldwide fame of Walt Disney. He created the animated Mickey Mouse and establi...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 14, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
The Westport Historical Society Speaker Series seeks to promote and foster public interest in and preserve the significance of local history....
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
World chess champion-turned-human rights activist Garry Kasparov sounded his first warning about Vladimir Putin in 2001.
He now c...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
6:30pm
Lady Bird Johnson was no mere White House photo prop.
The former Claudia Taylor once was described by husband Lyndon Johnson as “the brains and mon...
Signature Event
Monday, November 9, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Many, if not most, Americans’ understanding of Gen. George Armstrong Custer begins and ends with his demise at Little Bighorn. But that belies the com...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 8, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
Thomas Hart Benton’s national notoriety – as one of the most visible and controversial American painters of the 1930s – has overshadowed his time a...