The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Sunday, August 18, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of her book Pioneer Mother Monuments: Constructing Cultural Identity, University of North Dakota historia...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Military historian Harry S. Laver of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College looks back at Paris’ deliverance in 1944 from mo...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
6:30pm
The legend of George S. Patton is one of triumph touched by controversy. He delivered both in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, setting the s...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 21, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
No artist captured the people and landscape of early 20th-century Missouri more than native son Thomas Hart Benton. As a child growing up in southwest...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
As chief of staff to former President George H.W. Bush for 25 years, Jean Becker oversaw everything from the opening of his president...
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...