The North-East branch will be closed Monday, August 26 for staff training.
Signature Event
Thursday, October 5, 2017
6:30pm
Kansas City native “Cowboy Mike” Grauer, associate director for curatorial affairs and curator of art and Western heritage at the Pan...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
6:30pm
Amy Sherald has seen her art evolve from autobiographical to more socially relevant, “exploring identity and the roles of race and ge...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
6:30pm
In a discussion of his book U.S. Presidents and the Militarization of Space, 1946-1967, historian Sean Kalic...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
6:30pm
Steve Paul, a longtime writer and editor at The Kansas City Star, examines a transformative time in the life of an iconic wr...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
6:30pm
As part of the multi-library Big Read initiative revolving around The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s seminal book about the Vietnam War,...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
6:30pm
Author Ed Darack examines the downing of an Army helicopter in Afghanistan six years ago, killing all 38 aboard, in a discussion of h...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 21, 2017
6:30pm
Sabermetrics savant Bill James applies his research and analytical skills to true-crime solving, making a convincing case that a more...
Signature Event
Saturday, September 16, 2017
2:00pm
A panel of international military officers, currently studying at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, discusses their...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 14, 2017
6:30pm
Harvard University’s Danielle Allen discusses her searing family memoir, which details her younger cousin’s tragic arc from aspiring...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 14, 2017
3:30pm
Harvard University’s Danielle Allen visits the L.H. Bluford Branch for a special afternoon discussion of her new book, CU...