The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Sunday, July 19, 2015
2:00pm
PGAV Architects’ Mike Schaadt and Kimberlee Ried of the National Archives at Kansas City explain how the Federal His...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 12, 2015
2:00pm
Local author, educator, and historian William Worley discusses the New York Life Insurance Building (20 W. 9th St.). Regarded as Kans...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 27, 2014
2:00pm
A former employee of Frank Lloyd Wright, Clarence E. Shepard specialized in residential architecture and was an artist and landscape engineer. He desi...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 22, 2014
2:00pm
Chicago architect George Washington Maher was a giant of the Prairie School movement, whose buildings are treasured by communities lucky enough to hav...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Remember Barack Obama’s subtle 2008 putdown of Hillary Clinton, when he called her “likable enough?” Maybe the joke is on him.
No...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 5, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Time magazine’s David Von Drehle and Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion critic Robin Givhan discuss When Fashion...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 14, 2013
6:30pm
Few journalists have studied the issue of global warming with the thoroughness of The New York Times’ Justin Gillis, who has...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
6:30pm
Time magazine editor-at-large David Von Drehle holds a public conversation with Washington Post reporter Da...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
6:30pm
Time magazine’s David Von Drehle and Bloomberg blogger Megan McArdle discuss Freeing the Economy i...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
6:30pm
The August Dateline: Washington event at the Kansas City Public Library was supposed to be about outer space. Just outer space. Host...