All Library locations will open late Tuesday, July 9 at 10:30 a.m. due to staff training.
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
6:30pm
Anthony Swofford's new memoir, Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails, chronicles how in the years after the success...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 11, 2012
2:00pm
For prize-winning geographer James Shortridge, Kansas City is more than the sum of cultural icons like barbecue, jazz, and sports tea...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 8, 2012
6:30pm
Historian Terry Beckenbaugh maintains that the Civil War was inevitable given the failure of the nation’s political leadership to res...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Benjamin Franklin was an inventor, author, politician, postmaster, and civic activist.
But noted economist and Franklin biographer Mark Sko...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
6:30pm
Think you know Charles Dickens? Help celebrate the bicentennial of the great Victorian novelist’s birth with a special performance by...
Signature Event
Monday, October 29, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
For his latest book Thomas Frank, the best-selling author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? and The Wrecking Crew: How C...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
6:30pm
The War of 1812 began with much confidence among U.S. leaders.
Thomas Jefferson predicted that the conquest of Canada was “a mere matter of marchin...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 21, 2012
2:00pm
Peabody Award-winning radio personality Michael Lasser explores the songs inspired by our town, from “Everything’s Up To Date in Kan...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 14, 2012
2:00pm
Jim Chappell has accumulated a treasure trove of sports memorabilia that covers the walls of his restaurant. Dozens of sports persona...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 11, 2012
6:30pm
Dennis Domer looks at the evolution of architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s interior designs in which every element is intended to be not o...