The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
In this year’s Park University Hauptmann Lecture, international policy expert Robert Jervis maintains that though th...
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
Sunday, February 23, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Join Bernard Norcott-Mahany as he recounts “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (the movie Mitty is not the real Mit...
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 30, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
T...
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
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
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Signature Event
Sunday, July 21, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
Arguments may ensue on the merits of individual barbecue joints, but no one disputes the extent that the “culture” of B-B-Q has helped define every...
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
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
The 2008 financial collapse of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac resulted in a sweeping government bailout that cost the American taxpayers $...