All Library locations will be closed Wednesday, June 19, for Juneteenth.
Signature Event
Sunday, August 6, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book The Girl with the Agate Eyes: The Untold Story of Mattie Howard, Kansas City’s Queen of the Underworld...
Signature Event
Friday, July 14, 2023
8:45pm
In Person
The Library continues this summer’s Off the Wall series of rooftop film screenings, featuring cats in non-starring but invariably scene-chewing roles,...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 2, 2023
2:00pm
Online
Tapping new resources and research tools, local historian Michael Sweeney has produced the first new historical assessment in 20 year...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 11, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
There remains an aura around the Kansas City Monarchs, one of the most famous and successful teams in baseball’s Negro Leagues. Drawing from his book...
Signature Event
Friday, June 9, 2023
8:45pm
In Person
Welcome to a cat-tastic start to this summer’s Off the Wall series of rooftop film screenings, featuring cats in non-starring but invariably scene-che...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 21, 2023
2:00pm
Online
West Bottoms Whiskey Co. founder Alex Lindsey examines...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 2, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
Drawing from her book Unorganized Women: Repetitive Rhetorical Labor of Low-Wage Workers, 1837-1937, the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Jane...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 12, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
Former Sumner High School band and orchestra teacher Leon Alexander Brady recounts an impactful career and its 1972 pinnacle: the...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 26, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
Lawrence, Kansas, photographer Ann Dean discusses the impact and inspiration found in three seminal books – The Learning Tree...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 8, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
Drawing from her KC 1900 blog series, local author and historian LaDene Morton details how Kansas City rallied from a devastating set...