The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Sunday, March 5, 2017
2:00pm
In Person
In 1894, when women’s lives and choices were restricted and their influence was limited, a group of Kansas Citians answered a call to “stand shoulder...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 12, 2017
2:00pm
African-Americans have served proudly in every great American war, including the Civil War, where their verve and valor led to the establishment of al...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 9, 2017
6:30pm
The vitality of Kansas City’s arts community today traces back, in part, to David Hughes’ founding of the Charlotte Street Foundation...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 15, 2017
2:00pm
Decades before women in the U.S. could vote, hold public positions, or choose from a full range of occupations, young women and girls in the Kansas Ci...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 4, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
As it did throughout America, World War II affected every facet of life in Franklin County, Kansas, from 1941-45. The experience there was captured by...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 20, 2016
2:00pm
While some cities owe their existence to lumber, oil, or steel, Kansas City is arguably – or perhaps not so arguably – built on food.
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Signature Event
Sunday, October 16, 2016
2:00pm
In 1966 – three years before New York’s Stonewall riots – Kansas City was the scene of the first national gathering of gay rights groups. From that me...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 18, 2016
2:00pm
President Truman’s American Housing Act of 1949 empowered cities to replace blighted structures with safe public housing, and soon was altered to allo...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
6:30pm
America’s longest war began with an Apache raid and kidnapping of an Arizona rancher’s 12-year-old stepson in 1861. It would last more than a quarter...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 21, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
Faith healer? Fraud? Or both?
The enigma that was Francis Schlatter emerged in the American West in the late 1800s. In looks, he resemble...