All Library locations will open late Tuesday, July 9 at 10:30 a.m. due to staff training.
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
6:30pm
Why doesn’t practice make perfect? Why are the same mistakes replayed in every presidential election? Political scientist Samuel Popkin...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 9, 2012
2:00pm
The 1940 U.S. Census revealed that Missouri had 3.8 million residents, there were 1.8 million Kansans, and Kansas City, Missouri, was home to 400,000...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 6, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Cornell University historian Fredrik Logevall discusses the origins of America’s least popular war, beginning with the 1919 Versaille...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
6:30pm
Officials at the University of Missouri-Kansas City recently announced their intention to relocate many of their fine arts efforts to downtown. Planne...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 26, 2012
2:00pm
Civil War battlefields stubbornly conceal their secrets and their archaeology remains a buried, largely untapped source of historical information....
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with William Clarke Quantrill, portrayed by...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
6:30pm
Twenty years ago James B. Steele co-authored America: What Went Wrong, which argued that the middle class was shrinking, gua...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 9, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Many historians have written about the Watergate conspiracy. But can a novelist throw new light on this traumatic moment in American political hist...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
6:30pm
Why read the King James Bible? Douglas Hundley, an elder at the Second Presbyterian Church in Kansas City, answers that question....
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
6:30pm
This event has been cancelled due to a change in the ambassador’s travel schedule. Thank you for your understanding....