All Library locations will be closing early Wednesday, November 26 at 5 p.m. and will reopen Saturday, November 29.
Signature Event The Apache Wars Wednesday, August 31, 2016 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person America’s longest war began with an Apache raid and kidnapping of an Arizona rancher’s 12-year-old stepson in 1861. It would last more than a quart... Read More
Signature Event The Vanishing Messiah: The Life and Resurrections of Francis Schlatter - David Wetzel Sunday, August 21, 2016 2:00pm Central Library In Person Faith healer? Fraud? Or both? The enigma that was Francis Schlatter emerged in the American West in the late 1800s. In looks, he resemble... Read More
Signature Event From Cowtown to Paris of the Plains: Kansas City Composers Sunday, July 31, 2016 2:00pm Central Library In Person From its early days as a cowtown – a jumping-off point to the West and shipping center for meat and wheat – Kansas City not only grew into a Midwes... Read More
Signature Event Forty-Seven Days: Pershing’s Warriors Defeat the German Army Sunday, May 22, 2016 2:00pm Central Library In Person In the fall of 1918, more than a million U.S. soldiers faced a better trained and more experienced German army on the Western Front of World War I.... Read More
Signature Event A Tale of Two Cities: Urban Renewal Claims and Realities in Kansas City Sunday, March 20, 2016 2:00pm Central Library In Person Efforts to combat blight and “renew” Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, took off after the end of World War II, but the results were m... Read More
Signature Event Latina Religious Leadership in the Catholic Church in Kansas City Sunday, February 21, 2016 2:00pm Central Library In Person As part of a yearlong, statewide Missouri Latinos initiative, the Kansas City Public Library is offering an array of special programming. T... Read More
Signature Event Frozen in Time: Images of Wounded Knee and Pine Ridge, 1890-91 Sunday, January 24, 2016 2:00pm Central Library In Person Was the December 29, 1890, massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, an act of war? U.S. government officials deemed it such. Or was the killing of s... Read More
Signature Event Walt Disney: Missouri’s Homegrown Genius - Robert W. Butler Sunday, December 6, 2015 2:00pm Central Library In Person No other resident of Kansas City, past or present, has achieved the worldwide fame of Walt Disney. He created the animated Mickey Mouse and establi... Read More
Signature Event Thomas Hart Benton and Kansas City - Henry Adams Sunday, November 8, 2015 2:00pm Plaza Branch In Person Thomas Hart Benton’s national notoriety – as one of the most visible and controversial American painters of the 1930s – has overshadowed his time a... Read More
Signature Event The Journey of a People: History of the Community of Christ / RLDS Sunday, September 27, 2015 2:00pm Central Library In Person Two metro-area landmarks, the stainless steel-spired Temple and the domed Auditorium, accentuate the world headquarters of the Community of Christ... Read More