All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Saturday, February 13, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
In conjunction with this year's Adult Winter Reading Program theme of Shakespeare (a Winter's Tale Spin), the Westport Branch Library presents an afte...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
While perceived as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence existed everywhere in the decades following the Civil War – including Kansas and t...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 7, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
College graduates last May held an unenviable distinction: They left school deeper in debt than any class before them. Those who’d taken out studen...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 6, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
No other resident of Kansas City, past or present, has achieved the worldwide fame of Walt Disney. He created the animated Mickey Mouse and establi...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 14, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
The Westport Historical Society Speaker Series seeks to promote and foster public interest in and preserve the significance of local history....
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
World chess champion-turned-human rights activist Garry Kasparov sounded his first warning about Vladimir Putin in 2001.
He now c...
Signature Event
Monday, November 9, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Many, if not most, Americans’ understanding of Gen. George Armstrong Custer begins and ends with his demise at Little Bighorn. But that belies the com...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 8, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
Thomas Hart Benton’s national notoriety – as one of the most visible and controversial American painters of the 1930s – has overshadowed his time a...
Signature Event
Friday, November 6, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The 16th Annual Kansas City Storytelling Celebration features a lineup of lively stories, anecdotes, myths, legends, and lessons....
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
2015 commemorates not only the 125th anniversary of the birth of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, but also the U.S. Census Bureau’s declaration that...