The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Sunday, August 6, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book The Girl with the Agate Eyes: The Untold Story of Mattie Howard, Kansas City’s Queen of the Underworld...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In the latest installment of the Library’s Turning Points series in partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 2, 2023
2:00pm
Online
Tapping new resources and research tools, local historian Michael Sweeney has produced the first new historical assessment in 20 year...
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
Sunday, June 11, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
There remains an aura around the Kansas City Monarchs, one of the most famous and successful teams in baseball’s Negro Leagues. Drawing from his book...
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
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
Barbara Brackman – quilter, quilting historian, and author – examines quilt making in Missouri with a Kentucky connection and 19th-ce...
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
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...