All Library locations will open late Tuesday, July 9 at 10:30 a.m. due to staff training.
Signature Event
Thursday, August 11, 2011
6:30pm
Terry Beckenbaugh of the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth discusses the first Civil War battle fought west of th...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
6:30pm
This event has been cancelled due to a scheduling conflict.
With a larger-than-life protagonist and heart-stopping adv...
Signature Event
Friday, July 29, 2011
8:00am
Celebrate what would have been the 99th birthday of Milton Friedman when John Fund, political columnist for The Wall Street Journal, assesses the lega...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
No event in American history was more pivotal — or more contested — than the decision by Congress to declare independence in July 1776. Even months af...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 21, 2011
6:30pm
Often referred to as eight years of peace and prosperity, the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-61) was in fact an era of great s...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Born to a circus-clown father, Timothy Noel Tegge began performing in the ring by age 5. Today, while still working as a clown, he also acts as a circ...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 17, 2011
2:00pm
July 17, 2011, marks the 30th anniversary of Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency hotel walkway collapse that killed 114 people and injured 216.
Kansas City...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
6:30pm
Although relatively small compared to the great clashes to come, the Battle of First Manassas (Bull Run) was a seminal event in American history. Whe...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 26, 2011
2:00pm
Gardening expert Ethne Clarke discusses her book Hidcote: The Making of...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 19, 2011
2:00pm
The first-ever meeting of a national coalition of lesbian and gay leaders took place in Kansas City in 1966.
What preceded such activism? How has t...