All Library locations will be closed Wednesday, June 19, for Juneteenth.
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Military historian Sean Kalic of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College looks back on the 1957 space shot heard ’round the world: the Soviet...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
French Emperor and military commander Napoleon Bonaparte continues to fascinate, even centuries after his death. Jonathan Abel, associate professor of...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
In the latest installment of the Library’s Turning Points series in partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, military histori...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
6:30pm
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. What a...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
6:30pm
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. What a...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 17, 2013
6:30pm
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
Thursday, July 11, 2013
6:30pm
When it opened 40 years ago, Kansas City International Airport and its three-terminal design was hailed as the most convenient airport in the country....
Signature Event
Thursday, January 17, 2013
6:30pm
Steve Kraske of KCUR’s Up to Date moderates a panel discussion about Kansas City’s financial planning. Feat...