The Bluford branch will open late at 10 a.m. Friday, August 30 for a staff meeting.
Signature Event
Thursday, September 4, 2014
6:30pm
The year 2012 was a watershed for the Hollywood movie industry, producing the likes of Silver Linings Playbook, Les Misérables,...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
6:30pm
Two hundred years ago this month, during the War of 1812, the United States was in desperate straits. British forces had burned Washington, D.C. an...
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Thursday, August 28, 2014
6:30pm
Forests produce lumber, shelter a dazzling variety of plant and animal life, and serve as our planet’s lungs, cleansing the atmosphere of carbon dioxi...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
6:30pm
Two thousand years after his death, the story of the founder of the Roman Empire is one of the most riveting in western history. Caesar Augustus evolv...
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Twenty-three years after she riveted a nation – sitting before a microphone in a bright blue suit, calmly telling an all-male Senate committee...
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Thursday, August 21, 2014
6:30pm
Caught between the beauty of his grandchildren and grief over a friend’s death, Frank Schaeffer found himself simultaneously not beli...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014
6:30pm
Former State Department and CIA intelligence analyst Mark Stout discusses the birth of modern American espionage during World War I, from aerial recon...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014
6:30pm
The behind-the-scenes lives of African American clergymen and their families make up a major sub-genre of contemporary urban fiction. To date, most...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 17, 2014
2:00pm
The Kansas City Public Library and Cultural Crossroads will mark the opening of a new collection – The Human...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 17, 2014
2:00pm
Historian Petra DeWitt examines the suspicions and hostilities faced by Missouri’s sizable German American population during World War I, including qu...