All Library locations will be closed Monday, January 19 for Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday.
Signature Event
Thursday, March 23, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
UMKC professor and author Clancy Martin joins Angela Elam, formerly of public radio’s New Letters on the Air...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 16, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Poet Brian Daldorph, novelist Barbara Stuber, and Journey House Manager Samantha Pettus join the Library’s Anne Knig...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 12, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
Former Sumner High School band and orchestra teacher Leon Alexander Brady recounts an impactful career and its 1972 pinnacle: the...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
6:00pm
Online
Military historian Brian Steed of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College recounts the history-altering c...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 2, 2023
6:00pm
Online
The full truth of the deadly collapse of two 120-foot skywalks in Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency hotel in 1981 rested for decades in a manuscript writ...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
6:00pm
Online
A little more than a year into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, John Herbst, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine and current senior director of t...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 26, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
Lawrence, Kansas, photographer Ann Dean discusses the impact and inspiration found in three seminal books – The Learning Tree...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 26, 2023
1:30pm
In Person
This year’s Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series wraps up with a screening and discussion of The Apartment (1960, NR,...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
A year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a panel of military experts from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College examines the impact of...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 19, 2023
3:00pm
Online
In Person
Drawing from his book Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap, University of Connecticut history professor...