Plaza branch will open late at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 4.
Signature Event
February 20, 2012
6:30pm
Historian of the United States Senate Donald Ritchie discusses presidential relations with Congress since Harry S. Truman.
Ritchie...
Signature Event
February 19, 2012
2:00pm
Kansas City Star sports reporter Blair Kerkhoff explains why the NAIA basketball tournament in Kansas City was instrumental...
Signature Event
February 16, 2012
6:30pm
In his memoir Sometimes There Is A Void award-winning South African author Zakes Mda chronicles his youth f...
Signature Event
February 11, 2012
2:00pm
Musician/historian James Christopher Edwards brings the Civil War in Kansas and Missouri to life in this musical program about the no...
Signature Event
February 9, 2012
6:30pm
Jennifer Phegley, chair of the Department of English at the University of Missouri – Kansas City, examines how many of our modern mar...
Signature Event
February 8, 2012
6:30pm
Adam Arenson, assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso, examines the efforts of St. Louis’ intellectuals...
Signature Event
February 7, 2012
6:30pm
Lee Ward, owner of the Museum of Funeral History in Independence, discusses 150 years of African-American funeral homes, which in the...
Signature Event
February 2, 2012
6:30pm
Purdue University historian Randy Roberts discusses the iconic 1944 football game between the undefeated cadets of West Point and the...
Signature Event
January 31, 2012
6:30pm
David Israel Litan made his living in the oil business, but art was his passion and his gift. His lithographs portraying scenes of Ka...
Signature Event
January 29, 2012
2:00pm
Edward T. Matheny, Jr., a civic leader who graduated from Southwest High School in 1940, takes a fond look back at the proud past of...