The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
6:30pm
They are the most famous and controversial directors in the history of the CIA – Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and William Casey – and t...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 24, 2016
2:00pm
Was the December 29, 1890, massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, an act of war? U.S. government officials deemed it such. Or was the killing of some...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 6, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
No other resident of Kansas City, past or present, has achieved the worldwide fame of Walt Disney. He created the animated Mickey Mouse and establi...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 8, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
Thomas Hart Benton’s national notoriety – as one of the most visible and controversial American painters of the 1930s – has overshadowed his time a...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 27, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
Two metro-area landmarks, the stainless steel-spired Temple and the domed Auditorium, accentuate the world headquarters of the Community of Christ...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 16, 2015
2:00pm
Journalist and local historian Cindy Higgins presents an illustrated talk about the brewers and breweries of early Kansas, their role in fostering a s...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 19, 2015
2:00pm
In July 1974, an estimated 100,000 members—and probably more—of the Woodstock generation descended on the Missouri State Fairgrounds in Se...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 7, 2015
2:00pm
The federal government has been keeping tabs on foreign visitors to these shores for decades. In 1940 the Immigration and Naturalization Service began...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 17, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
By the time of Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, the land and people of western Missouri had suffered as much as any during the Civil War. The...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Among our “greatest generation” was a succession of U.S. presidents who were informed and defined by World War II. Harry Truman, who oversaw the end o...