The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Saturday, July 13, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
Before he was known as "Wild Bill,” famed frontiersman and gunfighter James Butler Hickok spent three formative years as a young man in the Kansas Cit...
Signature Event
Saturday, February 10, 2024
1:00pm
In Person
Drawing from their respective books, KelLee Parr and Stephen Rowley share their personal connections to The Willows, the most prominent of Kansas City...
Signature Event
Saturday, January 27, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
In a special Missouri Valley Saturdays discussion of her new book States of Swing: The History of the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra, 2003-2023, author Li...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 14, 2012
1:00pm
In Person
Author Wade Sisson discusses the Titanic’s sister ship, the R.M.S. Olympic, which steamed 300 miles in a desperate...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
6:30pm
In Person
Pierre Laszlo discusses Citrus: A History on Tuesday, January...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
6:30pm
In Person
Andrew Smith discusses Hamburger: A Global History on Tuesday, January 13, at 6...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
6:30pm
In Person
Ken Albala discusses Pancake: A Global History on Tuesday, January 6, at 6:30...