The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Thursday, February 9, 2017
6:30pm
The vitality of Kansas City’s arts community today traces back, in part, to David Hughes’ founding of the Charlotte Street Foundation...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 14, 2016
6:30pm
One of Kansas City’s greatest entrepreneurial success stories traces back to a picnic table in Loose Park in the late 1970s, when Cliff Illig...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
2015 commemorates not only the 125th anniversary of the birth of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, but also the U.S. Census Bureau’s declaration that th...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 17, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The Soviet Union’s 1957 launch of Sputnik, the world’s first satellite, was a critical Cold War moment for Dwight D. Eisenhower. What he called “a...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Presidential races are the stuff of myth, sometimes literally. Like the 1952 contest between Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson, both purportedly r...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
6:30pm
Dwight Eisenhower was a man of simple tastes but decisive action. Behind the dry smile was a brilliant, intellectual tactician, an attribute—als...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
6:30pm
Bill Zahner made a tough call shortly after taking charge of the family business in the late 1970s, shifting the focus of the A. Zahn...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
6:30pm
Author-educator Herbert Alan Johnson explains how a lawsuit over a steamboat monopoly ultimately led to Congress gaining the power to...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 29, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
When police in Ohio raided Dollree Mapp’s home looking for evidence in a bombing, all they found were some “lascivious books.” Mapp appealed her porno...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Homer Plessy—a man of seven-eighths Caucasian descent and one-eighth African descent who was nevertheless considered black under Louisiana law—boarded...