Southeast branch is opening late at noon on Saturday, September 28, due to staffing issues.
Signature Event
Sunday, November 18, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
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
In Person
Public historians Diane Eickhoff and Aaron Barnhart recall how hundreds of women defied cultural norms of the time t...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 12, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
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...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 29, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
When restaurateur Fred Harvey established his popular Harvey House restaurants along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway in the late 1800s,...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 3, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Though St. Louis has faced many trials and tribulations since its founding in 1764, no point in its history is remembered more for tragedy than 184...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 6, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice, local historian and blog...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 29, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Historian Bill Worley discusses the arrival and settlement of French traders in what’s now Kansas City’s West Bottoms area – but then was India...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 4, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Micah W. Kubic, who heads the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas, discusses his book about Freedom, Inc., and its more than half-cen...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 18, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Cowboy historian Jim Gray, executive director of the National Drovers Hall of Fame in Ellsworth, Kansas, recalls the early days of...