All Library locations will be closed Thursday, June 19, for Juneteenth.
History & Genealogy
Signature Event
Monday, June 28, 2010
8:30pm
In Person
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with President Woodrow Wilson, as portrayed by...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 27, 2010
2:00pm
In Person
Architect Paul Helmer examines the classical design of Central Presbyterian Church and Grand Avenue Temple United Methodist C...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 20, 2010
4:00pm
In Person
Author Susan K. Salzer discusses her debut novel, a fictional story set in Missouri during the Civil War that is based on actual...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 20, 2010
4:00pm
In Person
Joelouis Mattox discusses his series of articles in the Kansas City Call about the NAACP and the history of African-Am...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 6, 2010
2:00pm
In Person
Helix architect Reeves Wiedeman discusses the recent renovation of this structure and offers historical highlights of St. Franci...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 3, 2010
8:30pm
In Person
New York-based writer Elizabeth Bettina, discusses her book It Happened in Italy: Untold Stories of How the People of...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
8:30pm
In Person
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Shirley Christian presents an original talk on Carrie Westlake Whitney, librarian a...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 16, 2010
4:00pm
In Person
Kenneth H. Winn tells the seldom-heard story of Indian agent George Sibley and Ellen Lorr, whose failure to marry touche...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
8:30pm
In Person
Author T.J. Stiles discusses his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vande...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
3:00pm
In Person
Art historian Carol Inge Hockett presents Nefertiti’s Sisters: Women in Ancient Egypt – an examination of the r...