The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Saturday, July 13, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
Before he was known as "Wild Bill,” famed frontiersman and gunfighter James Butler Hickok spent three formative years as a young man in the Kansas Cit...
Signature Event
Saturday, February 10, 2024
1:00pm
In Person
Drawing from their respective books, KelLee Parr and Stephen Rowley share their personal connections to The Willows, the most prominent of Kansas City...
Signature Event
Saturday, January 27, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
In a special Missouri Valley Saturdays discussion of her new book States of Swing: The History of the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra, 2003-2023, author Li...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 1, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
There remains a haunting stillness over the grounds around Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland, where 3,650 Union and Confederate soldiers per...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 16, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Public historians Diane Eickhoff and Aaron Barnhart recall how hundreds of women defied cultural norms of the time t...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 19, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In the keynote address for the Quindaro Symposium, held April 19-21 in Kansas City, Kansas, historian Quintard Taylor exp...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 12, 2017
2:00pm
In Person
African-Americans have served proudly in every great American war, including the Civil War, where their verve and valor led to the establishment of...
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
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...