Signature Event Brides on the Santa Fe Trail Sunday, March 14, 2021 3:00pm Online In commemoration of the bicentennial anniversary of the Santa Fe Trail, historian Joy L. Poole examines the stories of five wives who... Read More
Signature Event Binding Us Together Tuesday, February 23, 2021 6:30pm Online Alvin Brooks’ mark on civil rights history in Kansas City – on the city’s history in total – is indelible. Born into povert... Read More
Signature Event A Legacy of Leadership Sunday, February 21, 2021 3:00pm Online While his story is not widely known, Kansas City civil rights leader Leon M. Jordan was among the most influential African Americans in Missou... Read More
Signature Event The Past, Present, and Future of Restaurants in KC Friday, January 15, 2021 12:00pm Online While more than three dozen Kansas City restaurants have closed for good amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many, many more have managed to survive. But w... Read More
Signature Event The Past, Present, and Future of Restaurants in KC Wednesday, January 13, 2021 12:00pm Online More than three dozen Kansas City restaurants, from burger joints to fine food establishments, have permanently closed over the past 10 months, par... Read More
Signature Event The Past, Present, and Future of Restaurants in KC Tuesday, January 12, 2021 12:00pm Online Bluestem. Beignet. Poi-O. The Rieger. The toll of the COVID-19 pandemic extends all too sadly to some of Kansas City’s most adored restaurants, fro... Read More
Signature Event Truman Takes Over: ‘Like the Moon, Stars, and Planets Had Fallen on Me’ Tuesday, December 8, 2020 6:30pm Online Harry S. Truman was scarcely prepared to assume the presidency upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in April 1945. He’d been vice president for... Read More
Signature Event Tom Pendergast and the Feud That Changed the Way States Choose Their Supreme Court Judges Thursday, October 8, 2020 6:30pm Online The model for fairly selecting judges across much of our country is known as the Missouri Plan, born some 80 years ago in response to the political... Read More
Signature Event The Liberation of Manila Tuesday, October 6, 2020 6:30pm Online The Library’s long, popular partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth resumes with the first in a new serie... Read More
Signature Event Strictly Speaking: Equal Rights Should Have No Deadline Saturday, August 29, 2020 10:00am Online How close are we to ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment? The question hangs anew over Congress. And the courts. Erica Bens... Read More