The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Saturday, July 13, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
Before he was known as "Wild Bill,” famed frontiersman and gunfighter James Butler Hickok spent three formative years as a young man in the Kansas Cit...
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
Saturday, October 7, 2023
4:00pm
In Person
In a discussion in conjunction with his Library exhibition A Survey of Elemental Gratitude, an arresting collection of photographs of Kansas’ Flint Hi...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 30, 2022
1:30pm
Efforts to marginalize Native Americans and their culture could not dimini...
Signature Event
Online
Walk into one of the hundreds of donut shops in Southern California – the land of glitz also happens to be the country’s donut capital – and odds a...
Signature Event
Online
The city of Philadelphia reduced the size of the local jail population by nearly half from 2015 to 2020, reflecting efforts by District Attorney&nb...
Signature Event
Online
While conducting research on facial recognition technology at the MIT Media Lab, Ghanaian-born Joy Buolamwini was startled to disc...
Signature Event
Signature Event
Online
There’s a story – important and real-life – behind 9 to 5, both the iconic workplace-revenge movie and the catchy Dolly Parton song.&...