The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
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...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 27, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Taking the White House requires a team, and America had never seen anything like the husband-and-wife team of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Historian...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 23, 2012
2:00pm
No president since the founders has done more to shape American government than Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Alan Brinkley argues th...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 20, 2012
6:30pm
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Thomas Jefferson, as portrayed by Patri...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 30, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Seemingly austere and reportedly passive in the face of a national economic calamity, Herbert Hoover is somewhat of a political orphan. But biographer...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with William Clarke Quantrill, portrayed by...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Bingham (1811-1879) - portrayed by actor Robert Gibby Brand - returns for the Library's popular Meet the Past series...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 26, 2012
6:30pm
In pursuing the Civil War, did Abraham Lincoln play fast and loose with civil liberties?
Pulitzer Prize winner Mark E. Neely, Jr.,...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Kansas City Star founder William Rockhill Nelso...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 12, 2012
6:30pm
How could a president have won a war and lost a re-election? For George H.W. Bush, being Commander-in-Chief during Desert Storm was not enough....