All Library locations will be closed Wednesday, June 19, for Juneteenth.
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Timothy Westcott, Damon Grosvenor, and Martin Roberson of Park University’s George S. Robb Centre for the Study of the Great War discuss their researc...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
We want our cities to be more affordable, more equitable, more vibrant and sustainable. Among the necessary fixes, former New York City planner Nolan...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
6:00pm
Online
Six days before the pivotal midterm elections of 2022, The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman examines one of the most complicated and controversia...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 8, 2022
6:00pm
Online
The Library and KCUR 89.3 kick off Securing Democracy, a three-part series inviting the community and its leaders to discuss securing democr...
Signature Event
Online
Richard Nixon lamented that he would be remembered only for Watergate and warming relations with China. He wasn’t wrong – about the wreckage of Wat...
Signature Event
Online
Have we been too hard on George W. Bush?
Drawing in part from a raft of newly available archival records, noted historian...
Signature Event
Online
Rep. Sharice Davis, in her second precedent-setting term in the U.S. House from Kansas’ 3rd District, discusses her new picture-book...
Signature Event
Online
Alvin Brooks’ mark on civil rights history in Kansas City – on the city’s history in total – is indelible. Born into povert...