North-East Library opens late at noon on Friday, June 28.
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...
Signature Event
Saturday, March 12, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
The Westport Historical Society Speaker Series seeks to promote and foster public interest in and preserve the significance of local history. Join us...
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 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
Saturday, February 11, 2012
2:00pm
Musician/historian James Christopher Edwards brings the Civil War in Kansas and Missouri to life in this musical program about the no...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
6:30pm
Adam Arenson, assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso, examines the efforts of St. Louis’ intellectuals...
Signature Event
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...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 12, 2011
9:00am
The Border Reconstructed and Remembered, moderated by Gary Kremer, The State Historical Society of Missouri, and fe...
Signature Event
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...
Signature Event
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...