All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
As part of the multi-library Big Read initiative revolving around The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s seminal book about the Vietnam War,...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 14, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Harvard University’s Danielle Allen discusses her searing family memoir, which details her younger cousin’s tragic arc from aspiring...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Author Mary Beth Leatherdale lends context to today’s heart-rending stream of refugees from Syria and other troubled countries in a d...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 10, 2017
2:00pm
In Person
Folklorist and historian Adam Miller recalls the frontier-life origins of the folk music of Kansas and Missouri. A singer and autohar...
Signature Event
Friday, September 8, 2017
8:00pm
Doors open: 8 pm • Program: 8:45 pm...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 7, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Patrick Henry is a largely forgotten founding father today, his accomplishments overshadowed by his oratory. Historian Jon Kukla, former director of t...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein makes the case that the racial divide i...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
6:30pm
In a discussion of her book Marriage Markets, the University of Minnesota’s June Carbone – a former law pro...
Signature Event
Monday, August 21, 2017
10:00am
Kansas City gets a prime view of the celestial event of a lifetime – the first total solar eclipse visible in the contiguous United States since 1979...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 20, 2017
2:00pm
Art historian Joan Stack explores how two 1845 paintings by Missouri artist and politician George Caleb Bingham may have reflected anxiety about Pr...