The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Friday, October 3, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Award-winning author Ann Bausum tells a true story of a terrier that wandered onto an Army training field, befriending Pvt. James Robert Conroy and ac...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Former State Department and CIA intelligence analyst Mark Stout discusses the birth of modern American espionage during World War I, from aerial recon...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 17, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Historian Petra DeWitt examines the suspicions and hostilities faced by Missouri’s sizable German American population during World War I, including qu...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
At 7 in the morning on February 21, 1916, the ground in northern France began to shake. For the next 10 hours, some 1,200 German guns showered shel...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
The Library launches a series of programs commemorating the centennial of the start of World War I with military historian D.M. Giangreco’s look at 34...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 17, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Competition between Kansas and Missouri goes back to the years before the Civil War, when Jayhawkers and “border ruffians” battled over the issue of s...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 11, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
When it opened 40 years ago, Kansas City International Airport and its three-terminal design was hailed as the most convenient airport in the count...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Library Director Crosby Kemper III conducts a public conversation with Roshann Parris, president and CEO of the award-winning publ...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 17, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Steve Kraske of KCUR’s Up to Date moderates a panel discussion about Kansas City’s financial planning. Feat...
Signature Event
Friday, November 18, 2011
12:00pm
In Person
Global Entrepreneurship Week closes as Library Director Crosby Kemper III conducts a public conversation with...