The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
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...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
An estimated 225,000 adults in Kansas City function at the lowest literacy level, denied some of the simplest and most important moments in life be...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 20, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City’s ad-industry history runs deep, featuring a host of agencies representing major brands including Guy’s Potato Chips and the McDonald’s Ha...
Signature Event
Saturday, July 25, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Community experts and local teens conduct workshops on activism and empowerment. Among the speakers: Dawson Barrett, an assistant his...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Lyndon Johnson had the misfortune of following the handsome, martyred John F. Kennedy into the White House and then miring his country in Vietnam....
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The role of women during World War II is little known, obscured by attention to the men who fought and led. But women were essential to the outcome. I...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
At the height of World War II, the city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee—then known only as the Clinton Engineering Works—boasted 75,000 people...