All Library locations will be closed Wednesday, June 19, for Juneteenth.
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Military historian Sean Kalic of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College looks back on the 1957 space shot heard ’round the world: the Soviet...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
French Emperor and military commander Napoleon Bonaparte continues to fascinate, even centuries after his death. Jonathan Abel, associate professor of...
Signature Event
Saturday, February 10, 2024
1:00pm
In Person
Drawing from their respective books, KelLee Parr and Stephen Rowley share their personal connections to The Willows, the most prominent of Kansas City...
Signature Event
Saturday, January 27, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
In a special Missouri Valley Saturdays discussion of her new book States of Swing: The History of the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra, 2003-2023, author Li...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
In the latest installment of the Library’s Turning Points series in partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, military histori...
Signature Event
Monday, December 12, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Military historian Christopher Johnson assesses the 2003 film...
Signature Event
Monday, November 14, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Military historian Dirk Ringgenberg assesses the historical accuracy of the 2001 film...
Signature Event
Monday, October 10, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Seventy-five years after the real-life trial it depicts, Mark Hull of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College assesses the...
Signature Event
Monday, September 12, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
World War II scholar William S. (Bill) Nance, a former Army armor officer, assesses the historical accuracy of one of the greatest military movies...
Signature Event
Monday, August 8, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Military historian Geoff Babb assesses the historical accuracy of the 1963 film 55 Days at Peking, which delivers an epic retelling of a c...