The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
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
Thursday, September 15, 2016
6:30pm
This event has been canceled at the speaker’s request. We will make every effort to notify interested persons when and i...
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
Faith healer? Fraud? Or both?
The enigma that was Francis Schlatter emerged in the American West in the late 1800s. In looks, he resembled popular...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 31, 2016
2:00pm
From its early days as a cowtown – a jumping-off point to the West and shipping center for meat and wheat – Kansas City not only grew into a Midwest m...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
6:30pm
His comedies, histories, and tragedies have been performed worldwide for more than 400 years, but William Shakespeare’s personal life remains somethin...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 22, 2016
2:00pm
In the fall of 1918, more than a million U.S. soldiers faced a better trained and more experienced German army on the Western Front of World War I. Th...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
6:30pm
Among the things Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants left behind when they fled Kandahar after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was a cache of...