Jeffrey Frank discusses his new book Ike and Dick, which examines the 20-year political and private rela...

The need to understand China has never been more pressing, yet the complexity of this ever-transforming giant doesn’t make that easy. China expert...

Theodore Roosevelt was one of the major figures in America’s Progressive movement in the early 20th century. But key to his influence was the support...

Built in 1942 in Johnson County, Kansas, the Sunflower Ordnance Works quickly became the world’s largest producer of rocket propellant, an essentia...

Writer Norma Cantú, internationally known scholar of Latino and Chicano literature and studies, reads from her book Canicula:...

Long before the Civil War began violence was commonplace along the Missouri-Kansas border. There a recurring cycle of robbery, arson, torture, murd...

When police in Ohio raided Dollree Mapp’s home looking for evidence in a bombing, all they found were some “lascivious books.” Mapp appealed her porno...

She is no longer a household name, but during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration Frances Perkins was one of America’s most inf...

Join us as we commemorate one of the landmark events in the civil rights movement. Library staff will lead a march around the block carrying signs...

Steve McDowell and Rick Schladweiler of the architectural firm BNIM and Kansas City Ballet Executive Director...