The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Thursday, June 22, 2023
6:00pm
Online
Not far from 18th and Vine streets, some of the most notable chapters in Kansas City’s Black history sprang from a single city block on Montgall Avenu...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Military historian and Civil War authority Angela M. Riotto looks back on the pivotal Union victory at Vicksburg in 1863 – finally ac...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 21, 2023
2:00pm
Online
West Bottoms Whiskey Co. founder Alex Lindsey examines...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
In the latest installment of the Library’s Conflict and Crisis series, a panel of military historians and experts from the U....
Signature Event
Thursday, April 27, 2023
6:00pm
Online
University of Virginia transit historian Peter Norton examines the need to revise our concept of city streets. They’re now so car- and speed-centric t...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Harry S. Laver of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College recounts a critical juncture in the Civil War: the...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
6:00pm
Online
Military historian Brian Steed of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College recounts the history-altering c...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 2, 2023
6:00pm
Online
The full truth of the deadly collapse of two 120-foot skywalks in Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency hotel in 1981 rested for decades in a manuscript writ...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
6:00pm
Online
A little more than a year into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, John Herbst, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine and current senior director of t...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
6:00pm
Online
A year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a panel of military experts from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College examines the impact of...