The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Keith Culbertson, the chairman and CEO of Design Workshop and a George Kessler historian, launches a three-part study of Kansas City’s distinctive sys...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
6:30pm
Two distinctive writers and educators join local novelist Whitney Terrell in a discussion of their craft and our nation’s fraught dia...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 10, 2019
2:00pm
Powerful imagery of protests and violence helped bring attention to America's civil rights movement. Black photographers of the era broadened the nati...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 6, 2019
2:00pm
Authors Carol Grove and Cydney Millstein sit down with former Kansas City council member Jan Marcason...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 16, 2018
2:00pm
Retired Kansas City attorney Michael Cronan discusses his book on the colorful life and career of James A. Reed, a Pendergast-backed...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 18, 2018
2:00pm
Historian Eric Anderson discusses the tumultuous, yet formative, beginnings of Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas....
Signature Event
Sunday, October 21, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book Benevolence, Moral Reform, Equality: Women’s Activism in Kansas City, 1870 to 1940, author...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 16, 2018
2:00pm
Public historians Diane Eickhoff and Aaron Barnhart recall how hundreds of women defied cultural norms of the time t...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Nationally renowned urban thinker Chuck Marohn, who kicked off the Library’s Making a Great City series in January 2018, returns to assess the crucial...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 12, 2018
2:00pm
The Library examines the history of the Kansas City chapter of the polarizing Black Panther Party and its founder, Pete O’Neal, starting with a screen...