The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Thursday, June 20, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Barry Strauss stands as one of today’s foremost classicists, his exhaustively researched and accessibly written books opening window...
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
In Person
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
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...