The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Sunday, April 28, 2013
2:00pm
Named for a prominent turn-of-the-century business mogul, the area around Jacob Loose Park is still one of Kansas City’s most beautiful areas largely...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 14, 2013
2:00pm
The lake in Troost Park was once an encampment used by Mormons migrating to Independence. Linked together by Linwood Boulevard and The Paseo, Kansas C...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 7, 2013
2:00pm
Taking the old Independence Road through the eastern environs of Kansas City toward Independence, it’s easy to miss some of Kansas City’s richest hist...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 8, 2012
6:30pm
Historian Terry Beckenbaugh maintains that the Civil War was inevitable given the failure of the nation’s political leadership to res...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
6:30pm
The Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862 is the bloodiest day in American military history. Now, exactly 150 years later, a panel of historians di...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
6:30pm
Historian Jim Denny examines the Battle of Island Mound, the first Civil War battle in which African-American soldiers engaged in com...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
6:30pm
Historian Bud Bowie looks at economic miscalculations by Confederate President Jefferson Davis and other Southerners that in effect d...
Signature Event
Saturday, February 11, 2012
2:00pm
Musician/historian James Christopher Edwards brings the Civil War in Kansas and Missouri to life in this musical program about the no...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
6:30pm
Adam Arenson, assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso, examines the efforts of St. Louis’ intellectuals...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 26, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
University of Pennsylvania historian Stephanie McCurry offers a new interpretation of the Confederacy that contends the South sowed t...