The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Thursday, April 5, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Cornell University historian Ed Baptist traces much of what has happened with race relations in the U.S. in the past 150 years to efforts to co...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Florida State University’s Wayne Wiegand, widely considered the “dean of American library historians,” examines an overlooked chapter in our na...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
New York-area pianist/vocalist John Bauers portrays legendary lyricist Johnny Mercer (“One More for My Baby,” “Moon River,” “Days of Wine and Roses”),...
Signature Event
Monday, March 26, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Frustrated with the slow pace of civil rights reforms and outraged at the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., protesters in Kansas City took to t...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 15, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Florida Atlantic University ethnobotanist Maria Fadiman discusses the deep relationship between people and plants worldwide, from people growing food,...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Janet Valentine of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College discusses that increased prominence of women in America’s military – the historical...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Military historian Geoff Babb of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College examines the historical twists and turns of America’s military relati...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 4, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Micah W. Kubic, who heads the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas, discusses his book about Freedom, Inc., and its more than half-cen...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Historian Jon Taylor of the University of Central Missouri examines the most consequential political marriage in our city’s and state...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Military historian Sean Kalic of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College discusses one of the most frightful urban battles of World War...