All Library locations will open late Tuesday, July 9 at 10:30 a.m. due to staff training.
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
6:30pm
A Tony Award winner for his Titanic and Nine musical compositions, Maury Yeston performs at the piano and discusses...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
6:30pm
Best known for his artistic achievements, Michelangelo not only filled hundreds of sheets with drawings, sketches, and doodles, but he also composed h...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 16, 2011
2:00pm
Diane Mutti Burke, an assistant professor of history at the University of Missouri – Kansas City, discusses he...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 13, 2011
6:30pm
Historian Edward Bowie explains why the military accomplishments of Alexander the Great remain a benchmark agai...
Signature Event
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
6:30pm
Following a contentious meeting in December 1955, the Kansas City Bar Association voted to admit both African Americans and women as members. Thi...
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
6:30pm
Kansas City Public Library Director Crosby Kemper III discusses the life and career of iconic film director Frank Capra....
Signature Event
Monday, December 6, 2010
6:30pm
In Person
Owning a business is the very definition of the American dream for many. Timothy Sandefur discusses his new book The...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 5, 2010
2:00pm
Noted historian Paul Nagel joins Douglas Adams, the great-great-great-great grandson of John Adams, for an examinati...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 21, 2010
2:00pm
Kansas native John B. McLendon is remembered as an innovative basketball tactician and the last living protégé of James Naismith,...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 18, 2010
6:30pm
In Person
Historian Donald Worster discusses John Wesley Powell’s 1869 journey down the Green and Colorado rivers and his trip through the...