The Ruiz Branch is closed Saturday, September 28, due to a malfunctioning fire alarm.
Signature Event
Sunday, May 22, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
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....
Signature Event
Sunday, March 20, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
Efforts to combat blight and “renew” Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, took off after the end of World War II, but the results were m...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 21, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
As part of a yearlong, statewide Missouri Latinos initiative, the Kansas City Public Library is offering an array of special programming. T...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 24, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
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 s...
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
In Person
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 Person
In July 1974, an estimated 100,000 members—and probably more—of the Woodstock generation descended on the Missouri State Fairgrounds in...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 7, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
The federal government has been keeping tabs on foreign visitors to these shores for decades. In 1940 the Immigration and Naturalization Service be...