All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
6:30pm
The Islamic State, also known as ISIS, is more than a place or a terrorist group. It is a set of ideas rooted in centuries-old beliefs and wrapped in...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 21, 2016
2:00pm
As part of a yearlong, statewide Missouri Latinos initiative, the Kansas City Public Library is offering an array of special programming. Ther...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
6:30pm
Author Greg Weiner maintains that today’s politically polarized America badly misses Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the former presidential...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 14, 2016
1:00pm
In Person
Islamism – or political Islam, the movement to infuse Islam in all areas of life – is hardly a 21st century phenomenon. Winston S. Churchill was a...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 11, 2016
6:30pm
Abraham Lincoln and William Shakespeare rose to prominence centuries and continents apart. But one of America’s greatest presidents felt a real connec...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
While perceived as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence existed everywhere in the decades following the Civil War – including Kansas and t...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 28, 2016
6:30pm
August Bondi remains a compelling figure in Kansas history, a Jewish immigrant from Austria who fought alongside anti-slavery crusader John Brown and...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 24, 2016
2:00pm
Was the December 29, 1890, massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, an act of war? U.S. government officials deemed it such. Or was the killing of some...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 7, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
College graduates last May held an unenviable distinction: They left school deeper in debt than any class before them. Those who’d taken out studen...
Signature Event
Saturday, December 19, 2015
10:00am
Come in for breakfast for the kids with Santa and Mrs. Claus. There will be crafts, and goody bags and you can have your photo taken with Santa. Thi...