The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Friday, May 12, 2017
8:00pm
In Person
Doors open: 8 pm • Program: 8:45 pm...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy was three years into his incendiary search for Communists when Dwight Eisenhower assumed the presidency in 1953. Ike...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 9, 2017
6:30pm
The vitality of Kansas City’s arts community today traces back, in part, to David Hughes’ founding of the Charlotte Street Foundation...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
6:30pm
This year’s election stakes are high, as always. But perhaps no presidential vote in U.S. history was more consequential than that of 1860.
The na...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 14, 2016
6:30pm
One of Kansas City’s greatest entrepreneurial success stories traces back to a picnic table in Loose Park in the late 1970s, when Cliff Illig...
Signature Event
Friday, June 17, 2016
8:00pm
In Person
Doors open: 8 p.m. • Program: 8:45 p.m. Romeo & Juliet’s timeless tale of star-cross’d lovers adds an undead element in...
Signature Event
Friday, May 20, 2016
8:00pm
Doors open: 8 p.m. • Program: 8:45 p.m. The Library’s 2016 Off-the-Wall fil...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
6:30pm
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
Thursday, March 12, 2015
6:30pm
Short, balding, and soft-spoken, James Madison was overshadowed by many of America’s other, more dynamic Founding Fathers. His list of accomplishments...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
6:30pm
Bill Zahner made a tough call shortly after taking charge of the family business in the late 1970s, shifting the focus of the A. Zahn...