The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
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...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
At 7 in the morning on February 21, 1916, the ground in northern France began to shake. For the next 10 hours, some 1,200 German guns showered shel...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
The Library launches a series of programs commemorating the centennial of the start of World War I with military historian D.M. Giangreco’s look at 34...
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
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...