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Participate in the International Year of Astronomy when Dr. Steven Hawley—astronomer, astrophysicist and a...

A panel of military historians will discuss the significance of the Battle of Gettysburg on Wednesday, July 1,...

Meet the Past features Library Director Crosby Kemper III interviewing prominent historical figures (as portrayed by v...

In 1917, as the U.S. entered World War I, Isaac Katz turned a challenge into an opportunity. A wartime decree prohibited stores from staying ope...

On Thursday, June 18, at 6:30 p.m. at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St., The Kansas C...

The Kansas City Public Library hosts poet Craig Santos Perez for a talk and reading from his new collection from Uni...

Judith Trager discusses the art of contemporary quilting and the quilts in the Don’t Fence Me In exhibit on...

Author and historian David O. Stewart discusses his new book Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johns...

Meet the Past features Library Director Crosby Kemper III interviewing prominent historical figures (as portrayed by v...

Nearly 20 years to the day that the Chinese government violently cracked down on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square, author Di...