All Library locations will be closed Thursday, June 19, for Juneteenth.
History & Genealogy
Signature Event
Thursday, February 10, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Ken Gormley, dean of the Duquesne University School of Law, discusses one of the most polarizing political scandals in American history, the investiga...
Signature Event
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...
Signature Event
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...
Signature Event
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...
Signature Event
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...
Signature Event
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...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 13, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Historian Edward Bowie explains why the military accomplishments of Alexander the Great remain a benchmark agai...
Signature Event
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...
Signature Event
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....
Signature Event
Sunday, December 5, 2010
2:00pm
In Person
The Kansas City Branch of the English-Speaking Union and the International Relations Council are co-sponsoring a lecture by the Fulbright-Robertson Vi...