All Library locations will open late Tuesday, July 9 at 10:30 a.m. due to staff training.
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
6:30pm
Historian Bud Bowie looks at economic miscalculations by Confederate President Jefferson Davis and other Southerners that in effect d...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 19, 2012
2:00pm
Kansas City Star sports reporter Blair Kerkhoff explains why the NAIA basketball tournament in Kansas City was instrumental...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 16, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
In his memoir Sometimes There Is A Void award-winning South African author Zakes Mda chronicles his yout...
Signature Event
Saturday, February 11, 2012
2:00pm
Musician/historian James Christopher Edwards brings the Civil War in Kansas and Missouri to life in this musical program about the no...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 9, 2012
6:30pm
Jennifer Phegley, chair of the Department of English at the University of Missouri – Kansas City, examines how many of our modern mar...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
6:30pm
Lee Ward, owner of the Museum of Funeral History in Independence, discusses 150 years of African-American funeral homes, which in the...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 2, 2012
6:30pm
Purdue University historian Randy Roberts discusses the iconic 1944 football game between the undefeated cadets of West Point and the...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
6:30pm
David Israel Litan made his living in the oil business, but art was his passion and his gift. His lithographs portraying scenes of Ka...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 29, 2012
2:00pm
Edward T. Matheny, Jr., a civic leader who graduated from Southwest High School in 1940, takes a fond look back at the proud past of...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
6:30pm
Richard B. Frank examines the new international scholarship on the first five years of China’s “War of Resistance” against Japan from...