The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Sunday, May 15, 2022
2:00pm
In Person
Poets and writers are often the most dangerous of resistors. In the 1930s, Joseph Stalin put Ukrainian-born poet Anna Akhmatova on his watch list for...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 28, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Using clips of movies from 1998’s seminal Smoke Signals to present-day releases, film and media history scholar Joanna Hearne...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 24, 2022
2:00pm
Online
In Person
The infamous Missouri Executive Order 44 – known as the Extermination Ord...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 21, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
It was described at the time as “a massacre that changes the meaning of ma...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Alexandra Brodsky is a civil rights lawyer, author, and founder of Know Your IX, a youth-led organization working to fight gender violence in schools....
Signature Event
Thursday, April 7, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
In conjunction with an evening reception celebrating the Library exhibition...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
6:30pm
In Person
The Kansas City Indian Center and Haskell Indian Nations University join in launching the Library’s community-wide...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
When Michael Mardikes began visiting Thomas...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
In rescuing some 70 enslaved people from Maryland’s Eastern Shore in the 1850s, shepherding them north along the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 13, 2021
10:00am
Which Kansas City school is best for your child? At the annual City School Fair, families can learn about more about 50 public, priva...