The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Saturday, July 13, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
Before he was known as "Wild Bill,” famed frontiersman and gunfighter James Butler Hickok spent three formative years as a young man in the Kansas Cit...
Signature Event
Saturday, February 10, 2024
1:00pm
In Person
Drawing from their respective books, KelLee Parr and Stephen Rowley share their personal connections to The Willows, the most prominent of Kansas City...
Signature Event
Saturday, January 27, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
In a special Missouri Valley Saturdays discussion of her new book States of Swing: The History of the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra, 2003-2023, author Li...
Signature Event
Online
How close are we to ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment? The question hangs anew over Congress. And the courts. Erica Bens...
Signature Event
Online
At 23, while serving as the youngest school principal in the state, Alice Chenoweth was excoriated in Ohio’s newspapers in 1876 for having an affai...
Signature Event
Online
One hundred years ago this month, women won their fight for the right to vote – though not all of them. Black women, who had pleaded as passionatel...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Angela Elam of New Letters on the Air, aired locally on KCUR 89.3 FM, holds a public conversation with author and Indepen...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Patrick Rosal’s poetry, writes one critic, “skillfully navigates between despair and love, between violence and music, between los...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Martin Espada, widely recognized as “the Latino poet of his generation,” joins Angela Elam from New Letters on t...