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Signature Event
Monday, September 12, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
World War II scholar William S. (Bill) Nance, a former Army armor officer, assesses the historical accuracy of one of the greatest military movies...
Signature Event
Monday, August 8, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Military historian Geoff Babb assesses the historical accuracy of the 1963 film 55 Days at Peking, which delivers an epic retelling of a c...
Signature Event
Monday, July 11, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
David Mills and Kayla Westra, co-authors of Great Wartime Escapes and Rescues, assess the historical accuracy of the classic 1963 film...
Signature Event
Monday, June 27, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Brian Steed of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College continues the Hollywood vs. History series, examining the film industry’s role in sh...
Signature Event
Monday, June 13, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Military historian Harry S. Laver of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College separates fact from Hollywood fiction in one of the most acclaime...
Signature Event
Monday, May 9, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Director Ridley Scott takes a sweeping look back to the Crusades and the brutal fighting between Christians and Muslims over the First Kingdom of J...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 28, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Using clips of movies from 1998’s seminal Smoke Signals to present-day releases, film and media history scholar Joanna Hearne...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 1, 2022
1:00pm
In Person
Amid the Library’s Big Read 2022, a two-month celebration of reading and poetry, Kansas City poet Glenn North conduc...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
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
Sunday, February 5, 2017
2:00pm
In Person
Coterie Theatre artists read from Samantha Berger’s story of an ordinary boy who transforms into a grumbling Crankenstein on what he...