The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
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...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
6:30pm
Shawn Faulkner of the Military History Department at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth discusses the conditio...
Thursday, November 10, 2011
6:30pm
Michael Fellman, a preeminent scholar of the American Civil War and an expert on the guerilla warfare that characterized the conflict...
The Border Wars Conference, featuring sessions at both the Central Library and the Plaza Branch, of...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
6:30pm
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III launches its second season with a conversation with Mark Twain, as portrayed by...
Thursday, August 11, 2011
6:30pm
Terry Beckenbaugh of the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth discusses the first Civil War battle fought west of th...
Sunday, July 24, 2011
2:00pm
The Plaza Branch concludes its annual Kansas City Architectures series, which in recognition of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War focused on anteb...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
6:30pm
Although relatively small compared to the great clashes to come, the Battle of First Manassas (Bull Run) was a seminal event in American history. Whe...
Sunday, July 10, 2011
2:00pm
The Plaza Branch continues its annual Kansas City Architecture series, focusing this year on antebellum homes in recognition of the sesquicentennial o...