The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Sunday, January 17, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
The Library kicks off its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and launches more than six months of special programming surr...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
After four of the bloodiest years of warfare in its history, peace finally had come to the United States in May 1865. For two glorious days, Washingto...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 17, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
By the time of Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, the land and people of western Missouri had suffered as much as any during the Civil War. T...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 10, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
The Library’s ninth season of Script-in-Hand performances, featuring the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre concludes...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
For Abraham Lincoln, the road to the future always began in the past – with the Founding Fathers, who inspired him to take up public life, showed him...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
On the morning of May 3, 1863, on the cusp of one of the most remarkable tactical battlefield victories in American military history, Gen. Robert E...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 29, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
The Library’s ninth season of Script-in-Hand performances, featuring the Metropolitan Ensemble...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
With the end of the Civil War in sight as he delivered his second inaugural address in March 1865, Abraham Lincoln eloquently implored his divided...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 8, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
The Library’s ninth season of Script-in-Hand performances, featuring the Metropolitan Ensemble...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
6:30pm
The latest installment of the Library’s Emmy Award-winning series, Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III, spotlights one of t...