The Ruiz Branch is closed Saturday, September 28, due to a malfunctioning fire alarm.
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. T...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 19, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
Kansas mills, located literally in the breadbasket of America, produced an enormous quantity of flour in an era when women routinely baked their fa...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 15, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
Bordered by rugged cliffs and the Missouri and Kansas rivers, the West Bottoms provided the spark for a rugged cowtown to become an urban metropoli...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 8, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
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
In Person
How did Kansas City miraculously transform itself from “the filthiest city in the United States” in the 19th century to the clean, well-planned emb...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 7, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
George Creel, the onetime head of President Woodrow Wilson’s Committee on Public Information, recalled in his memoir “how we advertised America.” B...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 16, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Although Kansas joined the Union as a free state, African Americans entering this new land looking for homes and livelihoods encountered a rigid co...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 19, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
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...
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...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 14, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Fifty years ago, in September 1964, The Beatles appeared – some say flopped – at Kansas City’s Municipal Stadium. Charley Finley, controversial own...