The Trails West branch closed early at 2 p.m. Monday, June 24 and will remained closed Tuesday, June 25, due to air conditioning issues.
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, February 2, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Matt Gallagher has emerged in the past decade as one of literature’s most distinctive and perceptive voices on the Iraq War. As an Ar...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 15, 2016
6:30pm
This event has been canceled at the speaker’s request. We will make every effort to notify interested persons when and i...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
6:30pm
This year’s election stakes are high, as always. But perhaps no presidential vote in U.S. history was more consequential than that of 1860.
The na...
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
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
6:30pm
His comedies, histories, and tragedies have been performed worldwide for more than 400 years, but William Shakespeare’s personal life remains somethin...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
6:30pm
Among the things Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants left behind when they fled Kandahar after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was a cache of...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
6:30pm
The latest installment of Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III spotlights two of the Midwest’s greatest artists, Kansas City’s Thomas...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
6:30pm
Lyndon Johnson had the misfortune of following the handsome, martyred John F. Kennedy into the White House and then miring his country in
Vietnam....
Signature Event
Thursday, March 12, 2015
6:30pm
Short, balding, and soft-spoken, James Madison was overshadowed by many of America’s other, more dynamic Founding Fathers. His list of accomplishments...