The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Remember Barack Obama’s subtle 2008 putdown of Hillary Clinton, when he called her “likable enough?” Maybe the joke is on him.
No...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 6, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
On a cold day in December 1890, near a creek called Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry opened fir...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 23, 2014
2:00pm
After the deaths in the early 1950s of botanist T.J. Fitzpatrick and his wife, a treasure trove of rare books was found in their modest home in Lincol...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 16, 2014
2:00pm
Murderers. Mob bosses. Anarchists. Bootleggers. Thieves. They’ve all found a home at the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, regarded for many y...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 19, 2014
2:00pm
Trumpeter Miles Davis once said: "You can tell the history of jazz in four words: Louis Armstrong. Charlie Parker."
Saxophone virtuoso Charlie "Bir...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 8, 2013
2:00pm
By 1940, Kansas City authorities had finally deposed “Boss Tom” Pendergast. In the spring of that year, teams of laborers from the Works Progress Admi...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 5, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Time magazine’s David Von Drehle and Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion critic Robin Givhan discuss When Fashion...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 17, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
In the late 1940s and 1950s, Kansas City native Tommy Campbell won 50 professional fights and became the world’s No. 2 lightweight. B...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 14, 2013
6:30pm
Few journalists have studied the issue of global warming with the thoroughness of The New York Times’ Justin Gillis, who has...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
6:30pm
Time magazine editor-at-large David Von Drehle holds a public conversation with Washington Post reporter Da...