All Library locations will be closed Wednesday, June 19, for Juneteenth.
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
Saturday, September 24, 2016
1:30pm
Fifty years ago this month, on September 8, 1966, NBC launched a new science-fiction television series that would become one of the most revered franc...
Signature Event
Saturday, September 17, 2016
1:30pm
Fifty years ago this month, on September 8, 1966, NBC launched a new science-fiction television series that would become one of the most revered franc...
Signature Event
Saturday, September 10, 2016
1:30pm
Fifty years ago this month, on September 8, 1966, NBC launched a new science-fiction television series that would become one of the most revered franc...
Signature Event
Saturday, September 3, 2016
1:30pm
Fifty years ago this month, on September 8, 1966, NBC launched a new science-fiction television series that would become one of the most revered franc...
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 sma...
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...