The Westport and Bluford branches will be closed Wednesday, June 12 for staff training.
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In a discussion of the newly released Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law, co-authored...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 2, 2023
2:00pm
Online
Tapping new resources and research tools, local historian Michael Sweeney has produced the first new historical assessment in 20 year...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 22, 2023
6:00pm
Online
Not far from 18th and Vine streets, some of the most notable chapters in Kansas City’s Black history sprang from a single city block on Montgall Avenu...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 21, 2023
2:00pm
Online
West Bottoms Whiskey Co. founder Alex Lindsey examines...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In the latest installment of the Library’s Conflict and Crisis series, a panel of military historians and experts from the U....
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
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
6:00pm
Online
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
Drawing from his book Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap, University of Connecticut history professor...