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Signature Event
Thursday, October 12, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
The Vietnam War still has the power to divide Americans between those for and against it—and just as surely, between those who remember the era fir...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Annie Presley, co-author of the award-winning book Read This… When I’m Dead, joins us at the Plaza Library...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Steve Paul, a longtime writer and editor at The Kansas City Star, examines a transformative time in the life of an iconic wr...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his book U.S. Presidents and the Militarization of Space, 1946-1967, historian Sean Kalic...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
As part of the multi-library Big Read initiative revolving around The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s seminal book about the Vietnam War,...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 21, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Sabermetrics savant Bill James applies his research and analytical skills to true-crime solving, making a convincing case that a more...
Signature Event
Saturday, September 16, 2017
2:00pm
In Person
A panel of international military officers, currently studying at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, discusses their...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 14, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Harvard University’s Danielle Allen discusses her searing family memoir, which details her younger cousin’s tragic arc from aspiring...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Author Mary Beth Leatherdale lends context to today’s heart-rending stream of refugees from Syria and other troubled countries in a d...