The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Memphis, a sprawling, river-flanked, music- and barbecue-imbued city some 7½ hours to the south, offers some important lessons in development for Kans...
Signature Event
Monday, October 10, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Seventy-five years after the real-life trial it depicts, Mark Hull of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College assesses the...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
6:00pm
Online
Missouri Poet Laureate Maryfrances Wagner and her counterpart in Kansas, Huascar Medina, talk about their work, t...
Signature Event
Monday, September 12, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
World War II scholar William S. (Bill) Nance, a former Army armor officer, assesses the historical accuracy of one of the greatest military movies...
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
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
6:00pm
Online
Tiffany Elder, co-chair of a Durham, North Carolina-based consortium called The Collective, talks about its work to facilitate equitable city building...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 30, 2022
6:00pm
Online
Bestselling Kansas City author Candice Millard discusses her new book River of the Gods with the Library’s Anne Kniggendorf. In the mid-18...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 25, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Historian Emilye Crosby of the State University of New York at Geneseo discusses the significance of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the crucial rol...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 11, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
In a discussion of her book Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One, New York urban revital...
Signature Event
Monday, August 8, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Military historian Geoff Babb assesses the historical accuracy of the 1963 film 55 Days at Peking, which delivers an epic retelling of a c...