The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
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...
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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...
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Thursday, November 6, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City author and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with one of the country’s most...
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Monday, October 21, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
In Gryphon, his career-spanning collection of short stories, author Charles Baxter offers yarns in which our acutely observe...
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Author-educator Herbert Alan Johnson explains how a lawsuit over a steamboat monopoly ultimately led to Congress gaining the power to...
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Thursday, September 19, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Few Supreme Court decisions have stirred up as much controversy, vitriolic debate, and even violence as 1973’s Roe v. Wade, which affirmed a woman’...
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Thursday, August 29, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
When police in Ohio raided Dollree Mapp’s home looking for evidence in a bombing, all they found were some “lascivious books.” Mapp appealed her porno...
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Homer Plessy—a man of seven-eighths Caucasian descent and one-eighth African descent who was nevertheless considered black under Louisiana law—boar...
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
The slave Dred Scott claimed that his residence in a free state transformed him into a free man. When the Court decided otherwise,...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Anthony Swofford's new memoir, Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails, chronicles how in the years after the success...