The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
6:30pm
Time magazine editor-at-large David Von Drehle holds a public conversation with Washington Post reporter Da...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 22, 2013
2:00pm
The country duo Granville Automatic performs songs from An Army Without Music, a recording project in which each song is ins...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
6:30pm
Time magazine’s David Von Drehle and Bloomberg blogger Megan McArdle discuss Freeing the Economy i...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
6:30pm
Long before the Civil War began violence was commonplace along the Missouri-Kansas border. There a recurring cycle of robbery, arson, torture, murder,...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
On the 150th anniversary of William Clarke Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Tony R. Mullis of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
The August Dateline: Washington event at the Kansas City Public Library was supposed to be about outer space. Just outer space. Host...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 18, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
William Quantrill’s August 21, 1863 Confederate raid on Lawrence, Kansas, left nearly 200 men and boys dead and the city in flames. Film expert...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 18, 2013
6:30pm
Military historian Terry Beckenbaugh examines the failed 1863 attack on the Confederacy’s Fort Wagner on Charleston Harbor – an incid...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
6:30pm
In the new series Dateline: Washington with David Von Drehle, journalists covering the nation’s capital offer an insider’s look at po...
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...