All Library locations will be closed Wednesday, June 19, for Juneteenth.
Signature Event
Friday, April 19, 2024
5:30pm
In Person
To celebrate two decades at 14 W. 10th Street, the public is invited to an all-ages drop-in happy hour on April 19, 2024, that includes refreshments,...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
Understanding the centuries-old Arab-Israeli conflict and the crisis that now grips the Gaza Strip is not easy. In a special and timely event, militar...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
6:00pm
Online
Six days before the pivotal midterm elections of 2022, The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman examines one of the most complicated and controversia...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In Kansas City and across the country, anticipation is building for the total solar eclipse of August 21. It parallels the nation’s fervor in 1878, wh...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
2015 commemorates not only the 125th anniversary of the birth of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, but also the U.S. Census Bureau’s declaration that th...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 17, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The Soviet Union’s 1957 launch of Sputnik, the world’s first satellite, was a critical Cold War moment for Dwight D. Eisenhower. What he called “a sma...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
6:30pm
Kansas Citians go to the polls in April and June to elect a mayor and 12 city council members who will direct the city for the next four years. What a...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
6:30pm
Kansas Citians go to the polls in April and June to elect a mayor and 12 city council members who will direct the city for the next four years. What a...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book, How the Poor Can Save Capitalism: Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class, author J...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Remember Barack Obama’s subtle 2008 putdown of Hillary Clinton, when he called her “likable enough?” Maybe the joke is on him.
No...