The Westport and Bluford branches will be closed Wednesday, June 12 for staff training.
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
As Vladimir Putin engages in nuclear saber-rattling amid Russia’s assault on Ukraine, military historian Gates Brown of the U.S. Army Command and Gene...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
In the latest installment of the Library’s Turning Points series in partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, military histori...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 24, 2023
6:00pm
Online
Drawing from her book Ordinary Equality: The Fearless Women and Queer People Who Shaped the U.S. Constitution and the Equal Rights Amendme...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In the latest installment of the Library’s Turning Points series in partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 18, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
The Library and Kansas City PBS offer a screening and discussion of the 30-minute film AIDS in KC: Facing the Challenge 1...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
6:00pm
Online
Military historian and Civil War authority Angela M. Riotto looks back on the pivotal Union victory at Vicksburg in 1863 – finally ac...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
Barbara Brackman – quilter, quilting historian, and author – examines quilt making in Missouri with a Kentucky connection and 19th-ce...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
6:00pm
Online
Harry S. Laver of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College recounts a critical juncture in the Civil War: the...
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
Thursday, February 16, 2023
6:00pm
Online
Robert Alter, the foremost modern translator of the Hebrew Bible into English, discusses that work, the significant implications from even t...