The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Sunday, January 25, 2015
2:00pm
How did Kansas City miraculously transform itself from “the filthiest city in the United States” in the 19th century to the clean, well-planned embodi...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 7, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
George Creel, the onetime head of President Woodrow Wilson’s Committee on Public Information, recalled in his memoir “how we advertised America.” B...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 16, 2014
2:00pm
Although Kansas joined the Union as a free state, African Americans entering this new land looking for homes and livelihoods encountered a rigid color...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 19, 2014
2:00pm
Not only is Kansas City home to world-class art museums, outstanding performing arts venues, and some of the planet’s best barbecue, it also boasts su...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 28, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Kansas City’s Union Station opened 100 years ago next month, a grand, 850,000-square-foot edifice that saw as many as 678,000-plus rail passengers...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 14, 2014
2:00pm
Fifty years ago, in September 1964, The Beatles appeared – some say flopped – at Kansas City’s Municipal Stadium. Charley Finley, controversial owner...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 17, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Historian Petra DeWitt examines the suspicions and hostilities faced by Missouri’s sizable German American population during World War I, including qu...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 22, 2014
2:00pm
On October 21-23, 1864, a Confederate army led by General Sterling Price clashed with its Union counterpart commanded by General Samuel Curtis. The im...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 8, 2014
2:00pm
Postcards were the “instant messages” of their day, a means of communicating hometown pride, civic identity, and a visitor’s curiosity. But where toda...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 18, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
A now forgotten advertising slogan once proclaimed that Kansas City — proud of its “cowtown” heritage — was “where the steak is born.”...