The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
The November general election will seat a Congress facing critical economic challenges. But analysts disagree on the role of government in the econ...
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
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
Sunday, May 16, 2010
3:00pm
In Person
The Searching the Psyche through Cinema film series continues with Juno, a whip-smart comedy about the t...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 18, 2010
3:00pm
In Person
Searching the Psyche through Cinema continues with the unconventional and haunting Sofia Coppola film The Virgin Suicides...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 11, 2010
4:30pm
In Person
The English Speaking Union is hosting the Fulbright-Robertson Visiting Professor from Westminster College, Fulton, MO.
Dr. Robert Tyler wa...