The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Less than a week before the June 18 general election, the two candidates to succeed outgoing Kansas City Mayor Sly James face off on the issues and co...
Signature Event
Monday, June 10, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
In her new book Scenes from the Heartland: Stories Based on Lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton, award-winning novelist, short story writer, and poet Do...
Signature Event
Monday, June 10, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
The Library punctuates a months-long study of immigration in America with a look into the personal journeys of immigrants who have settled in the Lawr...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 9, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
Founded as a port at the confluence of two great rivers, Kansas City has the waters of the Missouri running through its bloodstream—threading expressw...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 6, 2019
6:30pm
Seventy-five years later, the world still marvels at the audacity and epic scope of D-Day. Some 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch o...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
6:30pm
Tim Rives, supervisory archivist and deputy director of the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, and Curator William S...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 19, 2019
2:00pm
Mexican immigrants who settled in Kansas City’s westside community in the early 1900s faced discrimination, poverty, and a lack of social services. In...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 16, 2019
6:30pm
Valiant knights. Chaste virgins. Bawdy widows. Our notions of gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages tend to come from Hollywood and the History Chan...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 9, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
We’re well acquainted with Abraham Lincoln the country lawyer, the principled statesman, the revered martyr. In a discussion of his new historical nov...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, named one of the best books of 2018 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Time magazine, among others,...