The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Veteran re-enactor Charles Everett Pace brings his one man show to Kansas City to portray prominent abolitionist and social reform...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Even for those of us unfamiliar with history, the very name “Gettysburg” suggests a monumental clash of armies. But beyond the chaos of the battle...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 10, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Tom Bass, portrayed by veteran actor Wa...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
On the 150th anniversary of William Clarke Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Tony R. Mullis of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 18, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
William Quantrill’s August 21, 1863 Confederate raid on Lawrence, Kansas, left nearly 200 men and boys dead and the city in flames. Film expert...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 18, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Military historian Terry Beckenbaugh examines the failed 1863 attack on the Confederacy’s Fort Wagner on Charleston Harbor – an in...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 8, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Historian Terry Beckenbaugh maintains that the Civil War was inevitable given the failure of the nation’s political leadership to...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
The Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862 is the bloodiest day in American military history. Now, exactly 150 years later, a panel of historians...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Historian Jim Denny examines the Battle of Island Mound, the first Civil War battle in which African-American soldiers engaged in...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with William Clarke Quantrill, portrayed by...