The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Thursday, December 7, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book President McKinley: Architect of the American Century, acclaimed historian Robert Merry gives 2...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 17, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City-area artist Jessica Kincaid, who works from a palette of colorful beads rather than paint, discusses her work in an illus...
Signature Event
Saturday, June 3, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Sidney Blumenthal, a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton and later an advisor to Hillary Clinton, continues to offer a fresh...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy was three years into his incendiary search for Communists when Dwight Eisenhower assumed the presidency in 1953. Ike...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 12, 2017
1:30pm
In Person
This annual series wraps its psychological studies of movies directed by Joel and Ethan Coen with 1990’s Miller’s Cros...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Glenn North, the inaugural poet laureate of Kansas City’s 18th & Vine Jazz District, discusses his work as an accompli...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 26, 2017
1:30pm
In Person
This annual series returns in January and February with psychological studies of films directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, whose visi...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 12, 2017
1:30pm
In Person
This annual series returns in January and February with psychological studies of films directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, whose visi...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 29, 2017
1:30pm
In Person
This annual series returns in January and February with psychological studies of films directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, whose visi...