The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Sunday, July 10, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Elmer Boillot and Jesse Lauck designed houses in the Coleman Highlands, Sunset Hills and Country Club District neighborhoods, including The Walnuts. T...
Signature Event
Monday, June 20, 2016
1:30pm
In Person
Mondays in June, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s four-part series of inside-the-play presentations focuses on its summ...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 12, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
Author, photographer, and local historian Bruce Mathews discusses Charles A. Smith’s work in the first installment of the Library’...
Signature Event
Monday, May 9, 2016
7:00pm
In Person
U.S. policy on Israel has always emphasized the unbreakable bond between the two countries and America’s strong commitment to Israeli security. The...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Alexander von Humboldt was, in his time, one of the most interesting men in the world.
The 19th-century explorer and naturalist climbed volcanoes...
Signature Event
Friday, April 1, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
The 1920s and '30s marked Kansas City's transformation from a rough "cowtown" into a vibrant, modern city – despite such hindrances as political co...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
World chess champion-turned-human rights activist Garry Kasparov sounded his first warning about Vladimir Putin in 2001.
He now c...
Signature Event
Monday, November 9, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Many, if not most, Americans’ understanding of Gen. George Armstrong Custer begins and ends with his demise at Little Bighorn. But that belies the com...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 8, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
Thomas Hart Benton’s national notoriety – as one of the most visible and controversial American painters of the 1930s – has overshadowed his time a...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 24, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Like so many others in the late 1930s, the young black Americans who would become known as the Tuskegee Airmen were eager for military service as the...