North-East Library opens late at Noon on Friday, June 28.
Signature Event
Thursday, November 21, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
If George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are the saints in America’s civil religion, then the 29th president, Warren G. Harding, is o...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 17, 2013
6:30pm
Competition between Kansas and Missouri goes back to the years before the Civil War, when Jayhawkers and “border ruffians” battled over the issue of s...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
6:30pm
Author-educator Herbert Alan Johnson explains how a lawsuit over a steamboat monopoly ultimately led to Congress gaining the power to...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 3, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
A century after his inauguration, President Woodrow Wilson remains among the most influential figures of the 20th century—and o...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 12, 2013
6:30pm
Jeffrey Frank discusses his new book Ike and Dick, which examines the 20-year political and private relatio...
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
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—boarded...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 11, 2013
6:30pm
When it opened 40 years ago, Kansas City International Airport and its three-terminal design was hailed as the most convenient airport in the country....
Signature Event
Thursday, January 17, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Steve Kraske of KCUR’s Up to Date moderates a panel discussion about Kansas City’s financial planning. Feat...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
6:30pm
Author Robert W. Merry wraps up the presidential election – and the Hail to the Chiefs series – with a fresh, playful, and challengin...