As America’s education system approaches a pivotal new school year, former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan sits down with Lib...

In an online KC Library program, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed discusses her new book On Juneteent...

Nearly half a century’s work in photography and art has brought Patty Carroll to the Central Library’s first-floor Genevieve Guldner Gallery....

Former Kansas City Star writer and editor Steve Paul joins Kaite Stover, the Library’s director of readers’...

Cities are made to be walked – or should be, given the economic, environmental, and medical benefits.  How far is Kansas City from...

If, indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic is waning in the United States, the questions and concerns around it have not. Where do dangerous new viruses lik...

There is a way to address climate change -- we have the needed technology and financing -- but is there enough collective will? Can a society...

Pressing then-President Donald Trump on the issue of voter suppression a little more than 2½ years ago, veteran White House correspondent A...

These rancorous political times arouse a certain wistfulness for a president who sought a “kinder and gentler nation.”  George H. W....