The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Sunday, February 8, 2015
2:00pm
Richard L. Berkley once said, “I like meeting people.” Before, during, and after his record three-term tenure as Kansas City’s mayor...
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
George Creel, the onetime head of President Woodrow Wilson’s Committee on Public Information, recalled in his memoir “how we advertised America.” But...
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
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
It’s easy to think of World War I as a European war, but fierce fighting all over the Middle East brought about great changes on socio-economic, cultu...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 12, 2014
2:00pm
Before the birth of Kansas...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
What happens when German sp...
Signature Event
A conversation with eminent writer Ernest Hemingway, as portrayed by Rusty Sneary....
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...