The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
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 Rev....
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...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
In this year’s Park University Hauptmann Lecture, international policy expert Robert Jervis maintains that though th...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Tapped to be Franklin Roosevelt’s spymaster during World War II, William Joseph “Wild Bill” Donovan became a mythic figure in the his...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Well before the famous 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City sparked the modern gay rights movement, Kansas City had its own active gay rights communi...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
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Signature Event
Monday, July 30, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman as education reformer Virginia Walden Ford...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
The 2008 financial collapse of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac resulted in a sweeping government bailout that cost the American taxpayers $...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
The Fourth Biennial Urban Farms and Gardens Tour, a week-long showcase of urban agriculture across the Kansas City metro area, kicks off with a pre...
Signature Event
Monday, April 18, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
One of the prime movers of the neighborhood revivals of New York’s Soho and Miami’s South Beach, Tony Goldman shares his experiences...