All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
John Bluford, the chief executive officer of Truman Medical Centers, has been recognized by Modern Healthcare magazine as on...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Best-selling urban fiction author Kimberla Lawson Roby discusses and reads from the latest novel in her popular series about the R...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 18, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
A now forgotten advertising slogan once proclaimed that Kansas City — proud of its “cowtown” heritage — was “where the steak is born.”...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 15, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
For most of the Civil War, the role of cavalry was limited to reconnaissance and screening infantry movements. But at the Battle of Yellow Tavern (Vir...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 10, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
The Westport Historical Society and the Westport Branch Library present William (Bill) Bundschu: Abuse and Murder on the Frontier...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Seventy-five years ago, on April 30, 1939, amidst the billowing clouds of lingering economic depression and imminent war, the New York World’s...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
“War! What is it good for?” Motown singer Edwin Starr asked in his 1969 hit record. The musical answer: “Absolutely nothing.”
But in a discussion o...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 27, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
The 1876 raid by the James-Younger gang on Northfield, Minnesota, may be the most famous bank robbery in history.
Recognizing what was happening, c...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 17, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
What was termed the last Confederate funeral took place exactly 10 years ago — the burial of eight crew members of the Confederate submarine H.L...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 10, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
We’re bombarded with numbers that purport to tell us how our economy is doing and where it is headed. Statistics on unemployment, inflation, and consu...