The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
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
Sunday, May 5, 2013
2:00pm
This postcard tour of a bygone era offers views of Independence Boulevard (Kansas City’s first boulevard) and the rugged beauty of the city’s only urb...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 28, 2013
2:00pm
Named for a prominent turn-of-the-century business mogul, the area around Jacob Loose Park is still one of Kansas City’s most beautiful areas largely...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 14, 2013
2:00pm
The lake in Troost Park was once an encampment used by Mormons migrating to Independence. Linked together by Linwood Boulevard and The Paseo, Kansas C...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 7, 2013
2:00pm
Taking the old Independence Road through the eastern environs of Kansas City toward Independence, it’s easy to miss some of Kansas City’s richest hist...
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...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 20, 2012
6:30pm
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Thomas Jefferson, as portrayed by Patri...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
6:30pm
The Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862 is the bloodiest day in American military history. Now, exactly 150 years later, a panel of historians di...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
6:30pm
Historian Jim Denny examines the Battle of Island Mound, the first Civil War battle in which African-American soldiers engaged in com...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with William Clarke Quantrill, portrayed by...