All Library locations will be closed Wednesday, June 19, for Juneteenth.
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Military historian Sean Kalic of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College looks back on the 1957 space shot heard ’round the world: the Soviet...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
French Emperor and military commander Napoleon Bonaparte continues to fascinate, even centuries after his death. Jonathan Abel, associate professor of...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
In the latest installment of the Library’s Turning Points series in partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, military histori...
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
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
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...