The Trails West branch closed early at 2 p.m. Monday, June 24 and will remained closed Tuesday, June 25, due to air conditioning issues.
Signature Event
Sunday, May 17, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
By the time of Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, the land and people of western Missouri had suffered as much as any during the Civil War. The...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
6:30pm
Aristocratic and sophisticated, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, the wife of Theodore Roosevelt, ran the White House with a sure hand and figured prominently i...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
6:30pm
For Abraham Lincoln, the road to the future always began in the past – with the Founding Fathers, who inspired him to take up public life, showed him...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
6:30pm
On the morning of May 3, 1863, on the cusp of one of the most remarkable tactical battlefield victories in American military history, Gen. Robert E. L...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
6:30pm
With the end of the Civil War in sight as he delivered his second inaugural address in March 1865, Abraham Lincoln eloquently implored his divided cou...
Signature Event
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
6:30pm
The Civil War may have reached a turning point in 1864, when Ulysses S. Grant became general-in-chief of the Union armies, Confederate defeats continu...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 23, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
In 1864, Confederate Gen. Sterling Price mounted a last-gasp raid into Missouri in hopes of capturing St. Louis and ultimately the state. The end of t...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
It’s easy to think of World War I as a European war, but fierce fighting all over the Middle East brought about great changes on socio-economic, cultu...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 12, 2014
2:00pm
Before the birth of Kansas...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
What happens when German sp...