All Library locations will be closed Sunday, April 20, for Easter.
History & Genealogy
Thursday, February 10, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Terry Beckenbaugh of the Military History Department at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth discusses the milit...
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Simeon Wright discusses the 1955 kidnapping and murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till and explains what life was like before, during, and after the tri...
Thursday, February 3, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
To commemorate the centennial of Ronald Reagan’s birth, historian Michael Schaller chronicles the life of one of America’s most notable and successful...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Harvard historian Jill Lepore discusses her new book The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Ba...
Sunday, January 16, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
Diane Mutti Burke, an assistant professor of history at the University of Missouri – Kansas City, discusses he...
Thursday, January 13, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Historian Edward Bowie explains why the military accomplishments of Alexander the Great remain a benchmark agai...
Monday, December 13, 2010
6:30pm
In Person
The Kansas City Public Library continues its centennial commemoration of the 1910 Mexican Revolution with a special presentatio...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City Public Library Director Crosby Kemper III discusses the life and career of iconic film director Frank Capra....
Sunday, December 5, 2010
2:00pm
In Person
Noted historian Paul Nagel joins Douglas Adams, the great-great-great-great grandson of John Adams, for an examinati...