The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Thursday, May 5, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Participants from Glenn North’s May 1 poetry workshop take the stage to share their work. The readings draw heavily from U.S. Poet...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 14, 2022
6:30pm
In Person
U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, whose acclaimed An American Sunrise is the focus of the Library’s Big...
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
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...
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, February 10, 2016
6:30pm
They are the most famous and controversial directors in the history of the CIA – Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and William Casey – and t...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Among our “greatest generation” was a succession of U.S. presidents who were informed and defined by World War II. Harry Truman, who oversaw the end o...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
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Signature Event
Thursday, September 11, 2014
6:30pm
From Kansas City’s signature Country Club Plaza to pristine shopping districts and neighborhoods across the country, J.C. Nichols’ imprint on the Amer...