The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Dwight Eisenhower was a man of simple tastes but decisive action. Behind the dry smile was a brilliant, intellectual tactician, an attribute—...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 27, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
A former employee of Frank Lloyd Wright, Clarence E. Shepard specialized in residential architecture and was an artist and landscape engineer. He d...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 22, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Chicago architect George Washington Maher was a giant of the Prairie School movement, whose buildings are treasured by communities lucky enough to...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Author-educator Herbert Alan Johnson explains how a lawsuit over a steamboat monopoly ultimately led to Congress gaining the power to...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 19, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Few Supreme Court decisions have stirred up as much controversy, vitriolic debate, and even violence as 1973’s Roe v. Wade, which affirmed a woman’...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 29, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
When police in Ohio raided Dollree Mapp’s home looking for evidence in a bombing, all they found were some “lascivious books.” Mapp appealed her porno...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 25, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
Steve McDowell and Rick Schladweiler of the architectural firm BNIM and Kansas City Ballet Executive Director...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 11, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
Architect Todd Achelpohl of infrastructure solutions firm HNTB and Jonathan Kemper, president of the Kansas City...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 4, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
Architectural historian & preservation consultant Cydney Millstein examines how the TWA Headquarters Building at 18th and Main street...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Homer Plessy—a man of seven-eighths Caucasian descent and one-eighth African descent who was nevertheless considered black under Louisiana law—boar...