The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
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, 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
Thursday, September 8, 2022
6:00pm
Online
The Library and KCUR 89.3 kick off Securing Democracy, a three-part series inviting the community and its leaders to discuss securing democr...
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
Online
Richard Nixon lamented that he would be remembered only for Watergate and warming relations with China. He wasn’t wrong – about the wreckage of Wat...
Signature Event
Online
Pulitzer-Prize winning author Joseph J. Ellis and the Library’s Steve Woolfolk discuss his newest book, The Cause...