The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Friday, July 12, 2024
1:00pm
In Person
This road-tripping, hilarious, heart-wrenching, family-style adventure story is almost completely true, says author Pedro Martín. The Mexikid author,...
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Saturday, October 7, 2023
4:00pm
In Person
In a discussion in conjunction with his Library exhibition A Survey of Elemental Gratitude, an arresting collection of photographs of Kansas’ Flint Hi...
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In Person
The West Coast celebrates Bigfoot and the East Coast has Champy, the purported lake monster claimed by both New York and Vermont. But Wisconsi...
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Wednesday, July 31, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
What does film tell us about our fascination with and perception of the moon? University of Missouri-Kansas City film studies professor Mitch...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas Citians go to the polls in April and June to elect a mayor and 12 city council members who will direct the city for the next four years. Wha...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas Citians go to the polls in April and June to elect a mayor and 12 city council members who will direct the city for the next four years. Wha...
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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...
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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...
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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’...
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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...