All Library locations will open late Tuesday, July 9 at 10:30 a.m. due to staff training.
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Historian Robert Rydell describes how world’s fairs inspired and promoted innovations in architecture, the arts, music, science, and...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 3, 2012
2:00pm
On the eve of the 136th anniversary of the famous “Last Stand,” retired National Park Service Superintendent Paul L. Hedren asks: Was...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
The 2008 financial collapse of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac resulted in a sweeping government bailout that cost the American taxpayers $...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
6:30pm
Historian Barry Strauss delves into the personalities and methodologies of Alexander, Hannibal, and Caesar, three generals of the anc...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 24, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Willa Cather, portrayed by Jan Chapman...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 20, 2012
2:00pm
Historian Brooks Blevins examines a brutal 1929 murder and rape in the Arkansas Ozarks and demonstrates how press coverage of the ens...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 17, 2012
6:30pm
KU’s Steve Goddard and Perry Alexander explore the world of early computer scientist Alan Turing, the subject of...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
6:30pm
In his new book, When the Sirens Were Silent: How the Warning System Failed A Community, award-winning meteorologist...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
6:30pm
Leadership is less about having all the answers than about asking the right questions. Harvard Business School professor Robert Kaplan...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 6, 2012
2:00pm
Historian Donald R. Hickey, author of The Rockets’ Red Glare: An Illustrated History of The War of 1812, di...