The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Thursday, October 12, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
The Vietnam War still has the power to divide Americans between those for and against it—and just as surely, between those who remember the era fir...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
America’s longest war began with an Apache raid and kidnapping of an Arizona rancher’s 12-year-old stepson in 1861. It would last more than a quart...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 8, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
Thomas Hart Benton’s national notoriety – as one of the most visible and controversial American painters of the 1930s – has overshadowed his time a...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 24, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Is True Grit’s Mattie Ross a genuine feminist hero or a merely a woman who mimics traditional masculinity?
Panelists Brenda...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
For nearly 50 years Josephine Marcus Earp was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp, the legendary hero of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. As an indep...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
8:30pm
In Person
The Big Read brings author Marilynne Robinson to Kansas City on Wednesday, May 12, at 6:30 p.m. at the...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
8:30pm
In Person
The Kansas City Public Library hosts A Conversation with Tobias Wolff, author of the Kansas City Big Read select...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 30, 2009
8:30pm
In Person
The earliest deceit in Old School centers on a high school student who conceals his Jewish heritage from his classmates. To understand h...