All Library locations will be closing early Wednesday, November 26 at 5 p.m. and will reopen Saturday, November 29.
Signature Event John “Buck” O’Neil as I Knew Him: A Historian’s Perspective Sunday, November 6, 2022 2:00pm Central Library In Person Drawing from some two decades of interviews and conversations, chronicled in his recently released book John “Buck” O’Neil: The Rookie,... Read More
Signature Event Merchants of the Santa Fe Trail Sunday, October 2, 2022 2:00pm Central Library In Person Joy Poole, the retired deputy state librarian for the New Mexico State Library and co-founder of the Santa Fe Trail Association, e... Read More
Signature Event Beneath Missouri Skies: Pat Metheny in Kansas City, 1964-1972 Sunday, September 11, 2022 2:00pm Central Library In Person In a discussion of her book Beneath Missouri Skies... Read More
Signature Event Building Bombers in Kansas City Sunday, August 14, 2022 2:00pm Central Library In Person Dan Desko, founder and CEO of the B-25 History Project, recounts the value of America’s B-25... Read More
Signature Event Mount Washington Cemetery: In Search of Lost Time Sunday, June 5, 2022 2:00pm Central Library In Person In a discussion of his book Mount Washington Cemetery: In Search of Lost Time, local historian Bruce Mathews spotlights the... Read More
Signature Event Iconic Restaurants of Kansas City Sunday, May 22, 2022 2:00pm Central Library Online In Person Sitting at the nation’s crossroads, Kansas City has satisfied the appetites of hungry travelers since the days when it was a western outpost on the... Read More
Signature Event Engineered Irony: Octave Chanute’s Kansas City Bridge Sunday, May 1, 2022 2:00pm Central Library Online In Person There was no greater boon to Kansas City’s early development than the opening of the Hannibal Bridge in 1869. Designed by civil engineer Octave Cha... Read More
Signature Event Passing Through Missouri: Latter-day Saints Transmigration by River and Rail (1838-1868) Sunday, April 24, 2022 2:00pm Central Library Online In Person The infamous Missouri Executive Order 44 – known as the Extermination Order – was issued by Gov. Lilburn W. Boggs on October 27, 1838, forcing thou... Read More
Signature Event Osage Women and Empire: Gender and Power Sunday, March 6, 2022 3:00pm Online Before the Lewis and Clark Expedition arrived at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers in 1804 and a young St. Louis couple, Francois an... Read More
Signature Event Community Remembrance Project Sunday, February 6, 2022 3:00pm Online Carmaletta Williams, chief executive officer of the Black Archives of Mid-America, discusses her work with the Equal Justice Initiati... Read More