Part of preserving our city’s rich jazz history is caring for the musicians whose inimitable sounds were its essence. Former Kansas City Star columnis...

On the eve of the 13th annual KC Fringe Festival an 11-day performing and visual arts extravaganza spread across multiple Kansas C...

The world’s eyes were drawn in April to the iconic tower of Kansas City’s Liberty Memorial, site of the official centennial commemoration of our co...

It’s Lucile Bluford’s day. Officially. Bluford, for whom the Library's L.H. Bluford Branch...

The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s four-part series of inside-the-play presentations focuses on its summer production of the...

Infamous characters and sensational incidents abounded in the Ozarks immediately after the Civil War and well into the 20th century. The mining dis...

The Library’s Script-in-Hand series hits the dusty trail as members of the Western Writers of America perform...

Sisters Berta Sailer and Corita Bussanmas were once quiet convent dwellers. Forty-six years ago, however, the two nu...

In Kansas City and across the country, anticipation is building for the total solar eclipse of August 21. It parallels the nation’s fervor in 1878,...

As part of the country’s celebration of Juneteenth, commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S., Occidental College history professor Sharla...