All Library locations will be closed Monday, May 27, for Memorial Day.
Signature Event
Saturday, November 6, 2010
10:00am
The second annual Book Lovers and Book Clubs Conference takes place on Saturday, November 6, from 8 a.m. – 3...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
8:30pm
Christie Hodgen discusses her latest novel, Elegies for the Brokenhearted, on Wednesday...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 28, 2010
8:30pm
Henry Adams, the great-great-great-great-grandson of founding father John Adams, presents a sweeping saga about America’s first...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
8:30pm
Acclaimed biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the first president of the United States in W...
Signature Event
Monday, October 25, 2010
8:30pm
Pulitzer Prize-winner Garry Trudeau makes a special public appearance to celebrate the release of 40: A Doonesbury Re...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 21, 2010
8:30pm
From June - September 1692, 19 people were hanged for practicing witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. Just in time for Halloween, historian...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
8:30pm
In Person
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Edgar Snow, as portrayed by local actor...
Signature Event
Monday, October 18, 2010
8:30pm
American life changed forever in 1960 when Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy ushered politics into the multi...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 17, 2010
4:00pm
Bill Stancil presents Rockhurst University: The First 100 Years, a lecture supplemented with numerous historical...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 14, 2010
8:30pm
From bandits to gangsters, from kidnappers to gunslinging evangelists, Kansas City has proved to be a hotbed for criminals. In Kansas...