All Library locations will be closed Sunday, March 31, for the Easter holiday.
Signature Event
May 10, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
Jay Nordlinger has gained a reputation for open-mindedness in writing about politics, foreign affairs, and the arts, among other subj...
Signature Event
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
April 27, 2023
6:00pm
Online
University of Virginia transit historian Peter Norton examines the need to revise our concept of city streets. They’re now so car- and speed-centric t...
Signature Event
April 12, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
The Kansas City Repertory Theatre offers the second of two free Library performances of the ripple, the wave that carried me...
Signature Event
April 12, 2023
6:00pm
Online
Buki Papillon’s acclaimed debut novel An Ordinary Wonder revolves around an intersex Nigerian teenager whose gender...
Signature Event
April 11, 2023
6:00pm
Online
Harry S. Laver of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College recounts a critical juncture in the Civil War: the...
Signature Event
April 2, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
Drawing from her book Unorganized Women: Repetitive Rhetorical Labor of Low-Wage Workers, 1837-1937, the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Jane...
Signature Event
March 30, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In a discussion of his book The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America, author and personal finance consultant
Signature Event
March 26, 2023
3:00pm
In Person
The Kansas City Baroque Consortium, which specializes in the performance of early music on period instruments, offers a rich selec...
Signature Event
March 23, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
UMKC professor and author Clancy Martin joins Angela Elam, formerly of public radio’s New Letters on the Air<...