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Signature Event
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
6:30pm
Thanks to Shakespeare, Julius Caesar’s stabbing is the most famous assassination in history. But what actually happened on March 15, 44 B.C., is even...
Signature Event
Saturday, March 28, 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, March 26, 2015
6:30pm
There is a movement along the nation’s political right encompassing younger voters who cling to the tenets of smaller government, fewer regulations, a...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 19, 2015
6:30pm
As underscored by The Huffington Post six months ago, when it named Kansas City one of America’s “coolest” cities, things are looking bright...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
6:30pm
Kansas Citians go to the polls in April and June to elect a mayor and 12 city council members who will direct the city for the next four years. What a...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 15, 2015
2:00pm
Bordered by rugged cliffs and the Missouri and Kansas rivers, the West Bottoms provided the spark for a rugged cowtown to become an urban metropolis....
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
6:30pm
With the end of the Civil War in sight as he delivered his second inaugural address in March 1865, Abraham Lincoln eloquently implored his divided cou...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
6:30pm
Barbecue, jazz, Steamboat Arabia, and the Liberty Memorial, you probably know. But a comprehensive list of must-dos in Kansas City and the surrounding...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 26, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City novelist and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with author Elizabeth Ga...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
6:30pm
The latest installment of the Library’s Emmy Award-winning series, Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III, spotlights one of t...