The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Thursday, October 19, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
For many U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, music was the connection between battlefront and homefront and helped them cope with the complexities of the war...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book, Mark Bowden (author of the best-seller Black Hawk Down) details one of...
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
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
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
It’s easy to think of World War I as a European war, but fierce fighting all over the Middle East brought about great changes on socio-economic, cu...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 12, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Before the birth of Kansas City jazz, the musical community served up ragtime and blues. In 1917, the military-themed anthem “Over There” became a...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
What happens when German spies collaborate to unleash a campaign of terror upon America at the start of World War I?
In Dark Inva...
Signature Event
Friday, October 3, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Award-winning author Ann Bausum tells a true story of a terrier that wandered onto an Army training field, befriending Pvt. James Robert Conroy and ac...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Former State Department and CIA intelligence analyst Mark Stout discusses the birth of modern American espionage during World War I, from aerial recon...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 17, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Historian Petra DeWitt examines the suspicions and hostilities faced by Missouri’s sizable German American population during World War I, including qu...