All Library locations will open late Tuesday, July 9 at 10:30 a.m. due to staff training.
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
What, exactly, is presidential leadership? What is the current state of executive power in the U.S.? What lingering effects will the current financial...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Award-winning architect Wendell Burnette discusses his distinctive approach to architecture, one based on developing consensus to cre...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 1, 2012
2:00pm
Historian Julie Courtwright explains the role of fire – man-made and natural – in shaping the Great Plains and the lives of its resid...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
6:30pm
Noah Feldman examines how four of FDR’s Supreme Court appointees – Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, and Robert Jack...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 25, 2012
2:00pm
The Metropolitan Theatre Ensemble continues its sixth season of Script-in-Hand performances with Wendy Wasserstein’s...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 22, 2012
6:30pm
Guy Gugliotta discusses his new book about the raising of the U.S. Capitol, a process steeped in irony.
Even as the majestic struc...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 18, 2012
2:00pm
Landon Rowland discusses the achievements of 19th century railroad developer Arthur Stilwell, who forever changed the Kansas City are...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Winston Churchill’s 1946 speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, warned that Communism was on the march. Historian Philip White...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
6:30pm
Historian Shawn Leigh Alexander looks at the forgotten men and women who in the late 19th century took up the cause of civil rights f...
Signature Event
Friday, March 2, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
A panel of area composers discusses the enduring beauty and power of choral music. The next day – Saturday, March 3 – their latest works will premiere...