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...

Former Kansas City Star columnist Steve Penn joins U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver II for a discussi...

In 1937 the German ocean liner St. Louis set sail from Hamburg to Cuba. Aboard were nearly 1,000 Jews hoping to escape the Nazis. But midw...

On the 150th anniversary of William Clarke Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Tony R. Mullis of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff...

The August Dateline: Washington event at the Kansas City Public Library was supposed to be about outer space. Just outer space. Host...

William Quantrill’s August 21, 1863 Confederate raid on Lawrence, Kansas, left nearly 200 men and boys dead and the city in flames. Film expert...