The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Keith Culbertson, the chairman and CEO of Design Workshop and a George Kessler historian, launches a three-part study of Kansas City’s distinctive sys...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Nationally renowned urban thinker Chuck Marohn, who kicked off the Library’s Making a Great City series in January 2018, returns to assess the crucial...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Urban designer Jim Kumon looks at the resurgence of small-scale urban neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Denver, and Minneapolis, among other cities, and h...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 8, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Urban planner Joe Minicozzi looks at the “math” of effective city building, i.e., the financial implications of land use decisions in municipalities l...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Chuck Marohn, founder of the nonprofit Strong Towns, launches the Making a Great City series with a critical look at how we build our cities and towns...
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
Sunday, September 22, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
The country duo Granville Automatic performs songs from An Army Without Music, a recording project in which each song is...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Long before the Civil War began violence was commonplace along the Missouri-Kansas border. There a recurring cycle of robbery, arson, torture, murd...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
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 sowe...