All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Sunday, June 19, 2011
2:00pm
The Plaza Branch hosts its annual Kansas City Architecture series, focusing this year on antebellum homes in recognition of the sesqu...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 5, 2011
4:00pm
David Meyers, a professor of medicine- cardiology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, presents a discussion on Medicine in the Civil War....
Signature Event
Sunday, May 15, 2011
2:00pm
In association with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, re-enactors and historians will participate in an 1860s-themed fashion show. The will...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 5, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space, making a brief suborbital mission that marked the first manned launch of Project Merc...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
6:30pm
Historian David Goldfield discusses his vivid narrative history of the Civil War, America Aflame, which off...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
6:30pm
Author Gregory Wolk discusses his new book,...
Signature Event
Monday, April 18, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
One of the prime movers of the neighborhood revivals of New York’s Soho and Miami’s South Beach, Tony Goldman shares his experiences...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 20, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with George Caleb Bingham, whose paintings of Missouri and the American frontier have...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 3, 2011
6:30pm
To commemorate the centennial of Ronald Reagan’s birth, historian Michael Schaller chronicles the life of one of America’s most notable and successful...
Signature Event
Monday, December 13, 2010
6:30pm
In Person
The Kansas City Public Library continues its centennial commemoration of the 1910 Mexican Revolution with a special presentatio...