Signature Event Rhymes for Young Ghouls Saturday, April 16, 2022 1:30pm In Person Written and directed by Mi’gmaq filmmaker Jeff Barnaby, Rhymes for Young Ghouls offers an unflinching fictional account o... Read More
Signature Event An Evening With U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo Thursday, April 14, 2022 6:30pm Plaza Branch Online In Person U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, whose acclaimed An American Sunrise is the focus of the Library’s Big... Read More
Signature Event Night Raiders Saturday, April 9, 2022 1:30pm Plaza Branch In Person The Library continues a month-long series of film screenings in conjunction with Big Read 2022 with the thought-provoking... Read More
Signature Event Big Read Kickoff: A Community Celebration Wednesday, April 6, 2022 6:30pm Central Library In Person The Kansas City Indian Center and Haskell Indian Nations University join in launching the Library’s community-wide... Read More
Signature Event Smoke Signals Saturday, April 2, 2022 1:30pm Plaza Branch In Person The Library opens a month-long series of film screenings in conjunction with Big Read 2022 with Smoke Signals... Read More
Signature Event Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World Thursday, January 10, 2019 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Efforts to marginalize Native Americans and their culture could not diminish their transformational impact on popular music, from the Delta blues a... Read More
Signature Event A Fierce Glory: Antietam - The Desperate Battle that Saved Lincoln and Doomed Slavery Thursday, November 1, 2018 6:30pm Central Library In Person There remains a haunting stillness over the grounds around Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland, where 3,650 Union and Confederate soldiers per... Read More
Signature Event If It Looks Like a Man: Gender Identity, Female Soldiers, and 'Lady Bushwhackers' in the Civil War Sunday, September 16, 2018 2:00pm Central Library In Person Public historians Diane Eickhoff and Aaron Barnhart recall how hundreds of women defied cultural norms of the time t... Read More
Signature Event Quindaro: The Coming of Freedom in the Decade of Civil War Thursday, April 19, 2018 6:30pm Central Library In Person In the keynote address for the Quindaro Symposium, held April 19-21 in Kansas City, Kansas, historian Quintard Taylor exp... Read More
Signature Event Closing Chapter: End of the War in Vietnam Thursday, November 16, 2017 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Former ambassador David F. Lambertson, who served in Saigon in the mid-1960s as a member of the American embassy’s political secti... Read More