All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
2:00pm
Serengeti Steve performs over 600 shows a year throughout the country and has been featured as a Las Vegas finalist on NBC's hit show "America's Got T...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 28, 2015
6:30pm
Matt Rahner began documenting the dismantling of roughly a four-block section of Kansas City’s Wendell Phillips neighborhood—ac...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
After four of the bloodiest years of warfare in its history, peace finally had come to the United States in May 1865. For two glorious days, Washingto...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 17, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
By the time of Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, the land and people of western Missouri had suffered as much as any during the Civil War. The...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 14, 2015
6:30pm
The Kansas City Call and its longtime editor and publisher, Lucile Bluford, epitomized the role of the African American press in the civil ri...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
6:30pm
The relationship is clear: The more books a family owns, the greater the educational gains are for children.
Mariah Evans, a socio...
Signature Event
Monday, May 11, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The world is blowing up, seemingly confronted by a violent new crisis every day: the bloody implosion of Iraq and Syria, the East-West standoff in...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 10, 2015
2:00pm
The Library’s ninth season of Script-in-Hand performances, featuring the Metropolitan Ensemble Th...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 9, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
The Westport Historical Society Speaker Series seeks to promote and foster public interest in and preserve the significance of local history....
Signature Event
Thursday, April 30, 2015
6:30pm
Stanford University’s Eric Hanushek puts the value of quality teaching in stark economic terms. Place even a slightly above-average t...