The Ruiz Branch is closed Saturday, September 28, due to a malfunctioning fire alarm.
Signature Event
Sunday, December 14, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Washburn University’s Tom Averill, an O. Henry Award winner, discusses his inventive new novel, which subtly evokes Charles Dicken...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 11, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Gabriella Polony-Mountain is one of Kansas City’s most talented and diverse artists. Her bold, colorful body of work encompasses scul...
Signature Event
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
The Civil War may have reached a turning point in 1864, when Ulysses S. Grant became general-in-chief of the Union armies, Confederate defeats cont...
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Founded in 1839 as the first publicly supported institution of higher education in Thomas Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase territory, the University...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 7, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
George Creel, the onetime head of President Woodrow Wilson’s Committee on Public Information, recalled in his memoir “how we advertised America.” B...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 4, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Seventy-five years ago this week, shortly after the start of World War II, tiny Finland began a valiant, 105-day stand against a massive Soviet inv...
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Sonny Gibson began his 25-year effort to unearth Kansas City’s African American past with serious doubts. So much was unrecorded a...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 22, 2014
7:30pm
In Person
This event is at capacity. RSVPs are now closed at the presenters' request.
Christoph Wolff...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 20, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
In the early twentieth century, publicly staged productions of historical events became increasingly popular—and increasingly grand—in Ireland. The...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
7:00pm
In Person
For four years, noted pedestrian Henry Fortunato, the Library’s director of public affairs, has been planning and preparing for hi...