The Bluford branch will be closed Saturday, August 17 due to staffing issues.
Signature Event
Thursday, August 11, 2022
6:00pm
In a discussion of her book Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One, New York urban revital...
Signature Event
Monday, August 8, 2022
6:00pm
Military historian Geoff Babb assesses the historical accuracy of the 1963 film 55 Days at Peking, which delivers an epic retelling of a c...
Signature Event
Monday, July 11, 2022
6:00pm
David Mills and Kayla Westra, co-authors of Great Wartime Escapes and Rescues, assess the historical accuracy of the classic 1963 film...
Signature Event
Monday, June 27, 2022
6:00pm
Brian Steed of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College continues the Hollywood vs. History series, examining the film industry’s role in sh...
Signature Event
Monday, June 13, 2022
6:00pm
Military historian Harry S. Laver of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College separates fact from Hollywood fiction in one of the most acclaime...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 5, 2022
2:00pm
In a discussion of his book Mount Washington Cemetery: In Search of Lost Time, local historian Bruce Mathews spotlights the...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 22, 2022
2:00pm
Sitting at the nation’s crossroads, Kansas C...
Signature Event
Monday, May 9, 2022
6:00pm
Director Ridley Scott takes a sweeping look back to the Crusades and the brutal fighting between Christians and Muslims over the First Kingdom of J...
Signature Event
There was no greater boon to Kansas City’s early development than the opening of the Hannibal Bridge in 1869. Designed by civil engineer Octave Chanut...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 24, 2022
2:00pm
The infamous Missouri Executive Order 44 – known as the Extermination Order – was issued by Gov. Lilburn W. Boggs on October 27, 1838, forcing thou...