All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Thursday, March 8, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Urban planner Joe Minicozzi looks at the “math” of effective city building, i.e., the financial implications of land use decisions in municipalities l...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Military historian Geoff Babb of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College examines the historical twists and turns of America’s military relati...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 4, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Micah W. Kubic, who heads the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas, discusses his book about Freedom, Inc., and its more than half-cen...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Historian Jon Taylor of the University of Central Missouri examines the most consequential political marriage in our city’s and state...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 25, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
How can images of the private and vulnerable become monumental? How can they inspire? Casey Lee Holden and Nelson Pereira...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Dodge City, Kansas, native Robert Rebein revisits his hometown and Kansas’ high plains often in a discussion of his third book,...
Signature Event
Signature Event
Thursday, February 15, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
George Saunders discusses his best-selling Lincoln in the Bardo, winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize for...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Military historian Sean Kalic of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College discusses one of the most frightful urban battles of World War...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 8, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In conjunction with Black History Month, Gary Kremer, director of the State Historical Society of Missouri, examines the journey of Missouri’s...