All Library locations will open late Tuesday, July 9 at 10:30 a.m. due to staff training.
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
6:30pm
For nearly a quarter of a century, journalist and educator John C. Tibbetts spent most of his weekends hobnobbing with actors and fil...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
6:30pm
On January 8, 1815 — 199 years ago — the vaunted British Army suffered an epic defeat by makeshift American forces under the command of An...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
6:30pm
What if Adolf Hitler had realized his dream of an art career and never turned to politics? What if Judas had saved Jesus of Nazareth? What if Ho Chi M...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 8, 2013
2:00pm
By 1940, Kansas City authorities had finally deposed “Boss Tom” Pendergast. In the spring of that year, teams of laborers from the Works Progress Admi...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 5, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Time magazine’s David Von Drehle and Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion critic Robin Givhan discuss When Fashion...
Signature Event
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
6:30pm
Even in death, Britain’s “Iron Lady,” Margaret Thatcher, divides and polarizes.
Victor Bailey, Distinguished Professor of Modern...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 24, 2013
2:00pm
The Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre premieres its eighth season of Script-in-Hand performances – a series of classic c...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 23, 2013
7:30pm
The plays and poetry of William Shakespeare have had an immense impact on the English language, on theater, and on cinema. But the Bard’s words have a...
Signature Event
Friday, November 22, 2013
6:30pm
On the 50th anniversary of one of America’s most traumatic events, historians from the University of Kansas – Theodore A. Wilson,...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 21, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Agatha Award-winning author Hank Phillippi Ryan discusses her latest mystery, The Wrong Girl, about an i...