The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Author-educator Herbert Alan Johnson explains how a lawsuit over a steamboat monopoly ultimately led to Congress gaining the power to...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 19, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Few Supreme Court decisions have stirred up as much controversy, vitriolic debate, and even violence as 1973’s Roe v. Wade, which affirmed a woman’...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 29, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
When police in Ohio raided Dollree Mapp’s home looking for evidence in a bombing, all they found were some “lascivious books.” Mapp appealed her porno...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Homer Plessy—a man of seven-eighths Caucasian descent and one-eighth African descent who was nevertheless considered black under Louisiana law—boar...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
The slave Dred Scott claimed that his residence in a free state transformed him into a free man. When the Court decided otherwise,...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 23, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
This annual film series takes a look at Marriage & Family – Under the Surface, starting with Robert Redford’s Oscar-winning direct...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 21, 2010
1:00pm
In Person
The Searching the Psyche through Cinema series returns with Billy Elliot, a film about the son of a British coal miner...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 17, 2009
3:00pm
In Person
The Kansas City Public Library concludes Searching the Psyche through Cinema with a screening of Lolita...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 15, 2009
3:00pm
In Person
The Kansas City Public Library continues Searching the Psyche through Cinema – an annual film series in its fourth year – with a...