The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Thursday, December 1, 2022
6:00pm
Online
John Musgrave has been candid about his Vietnam War experiences and related struggles, notably as a featured voice in Ken Burns’ d...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
6:00pm
Online
Military historian Harry S. Laver of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College explores Ulysses S. Grant’s early struggles a...
Signature Event
Monday, August 8, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Military historian Geoff Babb assesses the historical accuracy of the 1963 film 55 Days at Peking, which delivers an epic retelling of a c...
Signature Event
Online
In Person
There was no greater boon to Kansas City’s early development than the opening of the Hannibal Bridge in 1869. Designed by civil engineer Octave Chanut...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 24, 2022
2:00pm
Online
In Person
The infamous Missouri Executive Order 44 – known as the Extermination Ord...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 21, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
It was described at the time as “a massacre that changes the meaning of ma...
Signature Event
Online
Before the Lewis and Clark Expedition arrived at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers in 1804 and a young St. Louis couple, Francois and B...
Signature Event
Online
Carmaletta Williams, chief executive officer of the Black Archives of Mid-America, discusses her work with the Equal Justice Initiati...
Signature Event
Monday, January 24, 2022
6:00pm
Online
The format of this event has been changed to virtual only. Watch online at yout...
Signature Event
Online
Pulitzer-Prize winning author Joseph J. Ellis and the Library’s Steve Woolfolk discuss his newest book, The Cause...