The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Thursday, November 1, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
There remains a haunting stillness over the grounds around Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland, where 3,650 Union and Confederate soldiers perish...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 21, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book Benevolence, Moral Reform, Equality: Women’s Activism in Kansas City, 1870 to 1940, author...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 16, 2018
2:00pm
Public historians Diane Eickhoff and Aaron Barnhart recall how hundreds of women defied cultural norms of the time t...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 12, 2018
2:00pm
The Library examines the history of the Kansas City chapter of the polarizing Black Panther Party and its founder, Pete O’Neal, starting with a screen...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 29, 2018
2:00pm
When restaurateur Fred Harvey established his popular Harvey House restaurants along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway in the late 1800s, tho...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 3, 2018
2:00pm
Though St. Louis has faced many trials and tribulations since its founding in 1764, no point in its history is remembered more for tragedy than 1849....
Signature Event
Sunday, May 6, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice, local historian and blog...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 29, 2018
2:00pm
Historian Bill Worley discusses the arrival and settlement of French traders in what’s now Kansas City’s West Bottoms area – but then was India...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 19, 2018
6:30pm
In the keynote address for the Quindaro Symposium, held April 19-21 in Kansas City, Kansas, historian Quintard Taylor exp...
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...