The Bluford Branch will be closing early Monday, June 17 at 7 p.m. due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Saturday, November 3, 2018
2:00pm
The marginalization of Native Americans wasn’t simply a crime of our country’s distant, unenlightened past. The documentary Dawnland c...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 7, 2018
2:00pm
The Library and KCPT–Kansas City PBS screen the acclaimed 2016 documentary spotlighting the famed essayist, novelist, poet, and champion of agr...
Signature Event
Saturday, March 10, 2018
2:00pm
The latest installment of the Indie Lens Pop-Up film series spotlights Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the first farmworkers union with Cesar Cha...
Signature Event
Saturday, February 10, 2018
2:00pm
As part of the Indie Lens Pop-Up film series, the Library and KCPT–Kansas City PBS screen the documentary Tell Them We Are Rising...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 16, 2017
6:30pm
Former ambassador David F. Lambertson, who served in Saigon in the mid-1960s as a member of the American embassy’s political secti...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 2, 2017
6:30pm
As the Vietnam War escalated in the 1960s, Hollywood was struggling financially and the longtime studio system was collapsing. Into the vacuum step...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
6:30pm
The war experience in Vietnam varied greatly, depending on when and where you served. A panel of military veterans, convened by the U.S. Ar...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
6:30pm
During the Vietnam conflict, battles on the homefront went beyond anti-war protests. Activists gathered in support of many cultural movements: civi...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 19, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
For many U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, music was the connection between battlefront and homefront and helped them cope with the complexities of the war...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book, Mark Bowden (author of the best-seller Black Hawk Down) details one of...