The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
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
Thursday, October 17, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
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
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...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 21, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
The 2013 Kansas City Architecture Series examines how historic buildings in Kansas City’s downtown area have been repurposed and g...