All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Friday, June 12, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Program: 6:30 p.m. • Reception FollowsOn the eve of the annual West 18th Street Fashion Show, Kansas City’s fashion industr...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 11, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Revolutions historically have come in waves, and the world appears to be riding one now – from the Arab Spring to anti-austerity protests in Greece to...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 7, 2015
2:00pm
The federal government has been keeping tabs on foreign visitors to these shores for decades. In 1940 the Immigration and Naturalization Service began...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
6:30pm
Japan is in the middle of a historic experiment. Nearly a quarter-century after the end of its post-World War II economic miracle, Prime Minister Shin...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
4:00pm
Serengeti Steve performs over 600 shows a year throughout the country and has been featured as a Las Vegas finalist on NBC's hit show "America's Got T...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
2:00pm
Serengeti Steve performs over 600 shows a year throughout the country and has been featured as a Las Vegas finalist on NBC's hit show "America's Got T...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 28, 2015
6:30pm
Matt Rahner began documenting the dismantling of roughly a four-block section of Kansas City’s Wendell Phillips neighborhood—ac...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
After four of the bloodiest years of warfare in its history, peace finally had come to the United States in May 1865. For two glorious days, Washingto...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 17, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
By the time of Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, the land and people of western Missouri had suffered as much as any during the Civil War. The...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 14, 2015
6:30pm
The Kansas City Call and its longtime editor and publisher, Lucile Bluford, epitomized the role of the African American press in the civil ri...