All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Thursday, July 30, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Author Jack Cashill discusses his new book, Scarlet Letters: The Ever Increasing Intolerance of the Cult of Liberalism...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
6:30pm
The political gulf between them may have been wide, but conservative icon William F. Buckley and the left-wing Norman Mailer...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 23, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City civil rights activist Alvin Sykes first encountered former U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn in 2007, when Coburn...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 23, 2015
7:30am
The proposal to add a new 800-room hotel to Kansas City’s convention-hosting amenities reaches a critical juncture on the afternoon of Thursday, July...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
6:30pm
Can a recently announced, 800-room Hyatt hotel, scheduled to open in 2018, boost Kansas City’s convention prospects when it opens? The city has invest...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 19, 2015
2:00pm
In July 1974, an estimated 100,000 members—and probably more—of the Woodstock generation descended on the Missouri State Fairgrounds in Se...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
6:30pm
Surveys show that the percentage of Americans with libertarian leanings—preferring to maximize individual rights and minimize the role of govern...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
6:30pm
This year’s Art in the Loop project infuses downtown with a variety of performances and installations by 20 Kansas City artists.
As the four-month...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
6:30pm
Nazi Germany’s defeat of France in May and June 1940 stunned the world. How could the French, the dominant military power of the First World War, coll...
Signature Event
Friday, June 26, 2015
10:30am
Join a top secret mission to find the perfect pet; not all animals make good pets.
With a large variety of exciting and interactive programs, the...