All Library locations will open late Tuesday, July 9 at 10:30 a.m. due to staff training.
Signature Event
Sunday, October 9, 2011
2:00pm
On May 22, 2011, a massive EF-5 tornado devastated Joplin, Missouri, killing 159 people and injuring countless others.
Reporters Eric Adler...
Signature Event
Friday, October 7, 2011
6:30pm
Central Standard, the award-winning KCUR morning program, hosts a variety show to commemorate the one year anniversa...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 6, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Faced with a divided nation, Abraham Lincoln deemed the loyalty of the border slave states crucial to the preservation of the Union. But while most sc...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
6:30pm
American Library Association President Molly Raphael explains why current social and economic conditions are forcing libraries of all...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
6:30pm
The annexation of the Philippines by the United States was a contentious issue at the turn of the last century. Supporters of annexation called the no...
Signature Event
Monday, October 3, 2011
6:30pm
In the six months since choosing Kansas City as a test market for its new fiber-optic network, Google has asked for community input in planning how th...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 2, 2011
2:00pm
Hasia Diner discusses the great century of migration, from the 1820s to the 1920s, when one third of Europe’s Jews left their homes t...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
6:30pm
Biographer James Grant discusses his new portrait of late nineteenth-century Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Tho...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
6:30pm
In his New York Times best-selling book, Frank Schaeffer uses his life as a lens through which to view a larger narrative: t...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 22, 2011
6:30pm
Columnist and political commentator John Avlon discusses his new book Deadline Artists: America’s Greatest Newspaper Colu...