The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Sunday, June 12, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
Author, photographer, and local historian Bruce Mathews discusses Charles A. Smith’s work in the first installment of the Library’...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
His comedies, histories, and tragedies have been performed worldwide for more than 400 years, but William Shakespeare’s personal life remains somethin...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 21, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
When The Washington Post asked 162 political science scholars earlier this year which American president should be added to Mount Rushmore...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
The latest installment of Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III spotlights two of the Midwest’s greatest artists, Kansas City’s Thomas...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 2, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
Mike Yeates and Andrew Mackey explain how they took an all-but-forgotten home and made it the office site of their business, The Real Estate Store. Th...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 26, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
Jon Knight, who oversees design senior principal at Populous, describes the changes being made to the Board of Trade Building (480...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 19, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
PGAV Architects’ Mike Schaadt and Kimberlee Ried of the National Archives at Kansas City explain how the Federal...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Lyndon Johnson had the misfortune of following the handsome, martyred John F. Kennedy into the White House and then miring his country in Vietnam....
Signature Event
Sunday, July 12, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
Local author, educator, and historian William Worley discusses the New York Life Insurance Building (20 W. 9th St.). Regarded as K...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 12, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Short, balding, and soft-spoken, James Madison was overshadowed by many of America’s other, more dynamic Founding Fathers. His list of accomplishme...