The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Due to a quirk in the calendar in the year 1849, one school of thought contends that Missourian David Rice Atchison deserves to be...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Veteran re-enactor Charles Everett Pace brings his one man show to Kansas City to portray prominent abolitionist and social reform...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 21, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
If George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are the saints in America’s civil religion, then the 29th president, Warren G. Harding, is o...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 17, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Competition between Kansas and Missouri goes back to the years before the Civil War, when Jayhawkers and “border ruffians” battled over the issue of s...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 10, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Tom Bass, portrayed by veteran actor Wa...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 3, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
A century after his inauguration, President Woodrow Wilson remains among the most influential figures of the 20th century—and o...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 12, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Jeffrey Frank discusses his new book Ike and Dick, which examines the 20-year political and private rela...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 11, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
When it opened 40 years ago, Kansas City International Airport and its three-terminal design was hailed as the most convenient airport in the count...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 5, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
This postcard tour of a bygone era offers views of Independence Boulevard (Kansas City’s first boulevard) and the rugged beauty of the city’s only...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 28, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
Named for a prominent turn-of-the-century business mogul, the area around Jacob Loose Park is still one of Kansas City’s most beautiful areas large...