The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
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
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
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
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
6:30pm
Kansas Citians go to the polls in April and June to elect a mayor and 12 city council members who will direct the city for the next four years. What a...
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...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 26, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City novelist and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with author Elizabeth Ga...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
6:30pm
Kansas Citians go to the polls in April and June to elect a mayor and 12 city council members who will direct the city for the next four years. What a...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 6, 2014
6:30pm
Kansas City author and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with one of the country’s most acc...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
It’s easy to think of World War I as a European war, but fierce fighting all over the Middle East brought about great changes on socio-economic, cultu...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 12, 2014
2:00pm
Before the birth of Kansas...