The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Monday, May 22, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Education reform comes fraught with questions. How do we distinguish between exciting, new ideas and costly, ineffective fads? Where can policymakers...
Signature Event
Monday, February 27, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Kunio Watanabe and William R. Farrell –leaders in the fields of international business and U.S.-Japan relations – discuss the economic...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 23, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
The attention to so-called “black rage” during the 2014 rioting in Ferguson, Missouri, clouded what one historian says was the actual root of the unre...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 22, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Literacy KC and The Writers Place have worked for decades to make Kansas City a more literate community. Literacy...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
When The Kansas City Star profiled the 10 greatest departed heroes in the city’s history earlier this year, it started – naturally – with Ewi...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Less than 100 days before Americans go to the polls, the latest installment of Dateline: Washington examines what has been one of the...
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
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Educators and researchers have long recognized the importance of mastering reading by the end of third grade. Students falling short often falter in l...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
2015 commemorates not only the 125th anniversary of the birth of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, but also the U.S. Census Bureau’s declaration that th...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 17, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The Soviet Union’s 1957 launch of Sputnik, the world’s first satellite, was a critical Cold War moment for Dwight D. Eisenhower. What he called “a...