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Signature Event
January 11, 2022
6:30pm
Online
In Person
Due to heightened COVID-19 concerns and travel complications for particip...
Signature Event
Online
In a discussion of his exhibit Dissident Formalisms, Kansas City artist Armin Mühsam examines the use of co...
Signature Event
Online
Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, discusses his new stand-alone, all ages book, Poison for Breakfast. Unl...
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Online
Richard Nixon lamented that he would be remembered only for Watergate and warming relations with China. He wasn’t wrong – about the wreckage of Wat...
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Even outside of his native Kansas City, Evan S. Connell is regarded as a modern master in literary circles. However, until now no one has written e...
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Mark Twain said there are “bad actresses, fair actresses, good actresses, great actresses – and then there is Sarah Bernhardt.”
The leg...
The leg...
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By most accounts, modern history is rooted in Spain and Columbus and and the discovery of the New World to the west more than five centuries a...
Signature Event
November 13, 2021
10:00am
Which Kansas City school is best for your child? At the annual City School Fair, families can learn about more about 50 public, priva...
Signature Event
Online
Pulitzer-Prize winning author Joseph J. Ellis and the Library’s Steve Woolfolk discuss his newest book, The Cause...
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Have we been too hard on George W. Bush?
Drawing in part from a raft of newly available archival records, noted historian
Drawing in part from a raft of newly available archival records, noted historian