The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
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....
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
6:30pm
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with James Naismith, portrayed by Bill Worle...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
6:30pm
Historian Jeff Broadwater argues that no single figure can tell us more about the origins of the American republic than our fourth pr...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 21, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Flamboyant, confident, and controversial, Edith Bolling Wilson was not your traditional First Lady. After her husband, Woodrow Wilson, suffered a debi...