Faced with a divided nation, Abraham Lincoln deemed the loyalty of the border slave states crucial to the preservation of the Union. But while most sc...

American Library Association President Molly Raphael explains why current social and economic conditions are forcing libraries of all...

The annexation of the Philippines by the United States was a contentious issue at the turn of the last century. Supporters of annexation called the...

In the six months since choosing Kansas City as a test market for its new fiber-optic network, Google has asked for community input in planning how th...

Hasia Diner discusses the great century of migration, from the 1820s to the 1920s, when one third of Europe’s Jews left their homes t...

One of the staples of Kansas City’s Westside community, the Irene H. Ruiz Branch of the Kansas City Public Library c...

Biographer James Grant discusses his new portrait of late nineteenth-century Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives...

In his New York Times best-selling book, Frank Schaeffer uses his life as a lens through which to view a larger narrative...

On the evening of May 20, 1957, an F-5 tornado tore into the communities of Ottawa and Spring Hill, Kansas, and Martin City, Grandview, Hickman Mil...

The third annual Power of Reading celebration features Kansas City authors and new adult readers sharing inspired stories about th...