The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Saturday, September 16, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
In a special Missouri Valley Saturdays presentation, Suzanne Hogan, creator and producer of KCUR public radio’s A People’s History of Kansas City, dis...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 6, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book The Girl with the Agate Eyes: The Untold Story of Mattie Howard, Kansas City’s Queen of the Underworld...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 2, 2023
2:00pm
Online
Tapping new resources and research tools, local historian Michael Sweeney has produced the first new historical assessment in 20 year...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 11, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
There remains an aura around the Kansas City Monarchs, one of the most famous and successful teams in baseball’s Negro Leagues. Drawing from his book...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 21, 2023
2:00pm
Online
West Bottoms Whiskey Co. founder Alex Lindsey examines...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 2, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
Drawing from her book Unorganized Women: Repetitive Rhetorical Labor of Low-Wage Workers, 1837-1937, the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Jane...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 12, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
Former Sumner High School band and orchestra teacher Leon Alexander Brady recounts an impactful career and its 1972 pinnacle: the...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 26, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
Lawrence, Kansas, photographer Ann Dean discusses the impact and inspiration found in three seminal books – The Learning Tree...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 8, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
Drawing from her KC 1900 blog series, local author and historian LaDene Morton details how Kansas City rallied from a devastating set...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 6, 2022
2:00pm
In Person
Drawing from some two decades of interviews and conversations, chronicled in his recently released book John “Buck” O’Neil: The Rookie,...