The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Thursday, September 12, 2013
6:30pm
Jeffrey Frank discusses his new book Ike and Dick, which examines the 20-year political and private relatio...
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
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
On the 150th anniversary of William Clarke Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Tony R. Mullis of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff Co...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
6:30pm
The August Dateline: Washington event at the Kansas City Public Library was supposed to be about outer space. Just outer space. Host...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 18, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
William Quantrill’s August 21, 1863 Confederate raid on Lawrence, Kansas, left nearly 200 men and boys dead and the city in flames. Film expert...
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...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
6:30pm
In the new series Dateline: Washington with David Von Drehle, journalists covering the nation’s capital offer an insider’s look at po...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
6:30pm
Author Robert W. Merry wraps up the presidential election – and the Hail to the Chiefs series – with a fresh, playful, and challengin...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 1, 2012
6:30pm
With his thick spectacles, big teeth, and boundless energy, President Theodore Roosevelt was a cartoonist’s dream subject. Rick Marschall...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 25, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
For all his accomplishments and advanced thinking, Thomas Jefferson could not get beyond his own limited perspective in matters of race. Drawing from...