The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) is among the most overlooked presidents in U.S. history even though his progressive values helped shape the course of th...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
6:30pm
Due to a quirk in the calendar in the year 1849, one school of thought contends that Missourian David Rice Atchison deserves to be co...
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
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 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
Jeffrey Frank discusses his new book Ike and Dick, which examines the 20-year political and private relatio...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 11, 2013
6:30pm
When it opened 40 years ago, Kansas City International Airport and its three-terminal design was hailed as the most convenient airport in the country....
Signature Event
Sunday, May 5, 2013
2:00pm
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 urb...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 28, 2013
2:00pm
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 largely...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 14, 2013
2:00pm
The lake in Troost Park was once an encampment used by Mormons migrating to Independence. Linked together by Linwood Boulevard and The Paseo, Kansas C...