The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Thursday, September 18, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
There are few storytellers like old baseball scouts because, well, nobody collects stories like the guys who spend a lifetime crisscrossing America’s...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 4, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
The year 2012 was a watershed for the Hollywood movie industry, producing the likes of Silver Linings Playbook, Les Misérables,...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 14, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
On this date 99 years and 364 days ago, the Panama Canal opened and revolutionized maritime trade.
It also threw the Panama Railroad and its parall...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Tapped to be Franklin Roosevelt’s spymaster during World War II, William Joseph “Wild Bill” Donovan became a mythic figure in the his...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Well before the famous 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City sparked the modern gay rights movement, Kansas City had its own active gay rights communi...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Television and movie audiences have grown familiar with the cattle-driving, staccato, and triumphant theme music at the beginning of nearly every West...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 8, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Marketing studies have shown that, like other consumers, beer drinkers often make purchases based not just on taste, but often on the packaging an...
Signature Event
Monday, July 30, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman as education reformer Virginia Walden Ford...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
8:00am
Kansas City’s self-described “bean baron” Danny O’Neill discusses the founding and continued success of The Roasterie...
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...