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Signature Event
Sunday, October 22, 2017
2:00pm
Preservationist Bradley Wolf, KC’s historic preservation officer for more than 17 years, discusses a recently released second edition...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 12, 2017
2:00pm
Artist and filmmaker Brian Hawkins examines our state’s mostly east-side French Creole community – specifically its rich collection of folktale...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 5, 2017
2:00pm
The Library continues its movie series for individuals with dementia, their friends, and families with the lighthearted documentary The Sear...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 3, 2017
2:00pm
Retired FBI agent William Ouseley joins Jonathan Bender, an editor for KCPT - Kansas City PBS, in discussing Kansas City’s gangland past...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 7, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book President McKinley: Architect of the American Century, acclaimed historian Robert Merry gives 2...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 16, 2016
2:00pm
In 1966 – three years before New York’s Stonewall riots – Kansas City was the scene of the first national gathering of gay rights groups. From that me...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 13, 2016
2:00pm
The Library opens a new intergenerational movie series that welcomes individuals with dementia, their friends, and families.
The...
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Sunday, November 20, 2016
2:00pm
While some cities owe their existence to lumber, oil, or steel, Kansas City is arguably – or perhaps not so arguably – built on food.
...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy was three years into his incendiary search for Communists when Dwight Eisenhower assumed the presidency in 1953. Ike...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 23, 2017
2:00pm
In Person
To the delight of local beer aficionados, Kansas City has seen a recent proliferation of new breweries, building on a history that dates to the 185...