The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
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
Sunday, April 28, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
In many ways, Kansas City’s early history is that of a stereotypical frontier town. Native Americans, pioneers, and cowboys are indelibly linked to th...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Louis Galambos, a Johns Hopkins University historian who edited the papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower, discusses his new book on Ike, ex...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Brian Steed, a military historian at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and Middle East foreign area officer, discusses...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 10, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
Commemorating Women’s History Month, University of Missouri-Kansas City social historian Sandra EnrĂquez identifies...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
6:30pm
One of the nation’s top military historians, John McManus of the Missouri University of Science and Technology, examines the influenc...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 10, 2019
2:00pm
Powerful imagery of protests and violence helped bring attention to America's civil rights movement. Black photographers of the era broadened the nati...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
University of Virginia historian William I. Hitchcock takes stock of Dwight Eisenhower’s far-reaching legacy as president in a discus...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 6, 2019
2:00pm
Authors Carol Grove and Cydney Millstein sit down with former Kansas City council member Jan Marcason...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 16, 2018
2:00pm
Retired Kansas City attorney Michael Cronan discusses his book on the colorful life and career of James A. Reed, a Pendergast-backed...