All Library locations will be closed Monday, May 27, for Memorial Day.
Signature Event
Thursday, November 1, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
There remains a haunting stillness over the grounds around Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland, where 3,650 Union and Confederate soldiers perish...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 16, 2018
2:00pm
Public historians Diane Eickhoff and Aaron Barnhart recall how hundreds of women defied cultural norms of the time t...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 19, 2018
6:30pm
In the keynote address for the Quindaro Symposium, held April 19-21 in Kansas City, Kansas, historian Quintard Taylor exp...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 5, 2017
2:00pm
The Library continues its movie series for individuals with dementia, their friends, and families with the lighthearted documentary The Sear...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 10, 2017
2:00pm
The Library continues its special, intergenerational movie series for individuals with dementia, their friends, and families with the amiable, c...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 17, 2017
6:30pm
Kansas City-area artist Jessica Kincaid, who works from a palette of colorful beads rather than paint, discusses her work in an illus...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 11, 2017
2:00pm
The Library continues its special, intergenerational movie series for individuals with dementia, their friends, and families with a lively, baseball-t...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 9, 2017
2:00pm
The Library continues its special, intergenerational movie series for individuals with dementia, their friends, and families, screening the effervesce...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Glenn North, the inaugural poet laureate of Kansas City’s 18th & Vine Jazz District, discusses his work as an accompli...