From Huckleberry Finn to Harry Potter. From The Great Gatsby to The Giving Tree. For a...

The Kansas City Symphony continues its series of free outdoor chamber concerts at the Library, with a woodwind quintet – flute, oboe, clarinet, bas...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a pop culture icon – “the Notorious RBG” – by the end of her life. Upon her death last week, at age 87, she inevitably beca...

For more than a century – until 1999 – an old Louisiana sugar plantation beside the Mississippi River held a painful secret. Locals knew it as Carv...

William Faulkner once famously noted, “The past is not dead. In fact, it’s not even past.” If not explicitly, he was referring most pointedly to an...

The Kansas City Symphony brings its series of free outdoor chamber concerts to the Library.Various ensembles perform for 45 minutes to an ho...

The Library joins public broadcasting network PBS in a special online presentation – a conversation with acclaimed writer Kali Fajardo-Anst...

How close are we to ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment? The question hangs anew over Congress. And the courts. Erica Bens...

At 23, while serving as the youngest school principal in the state, Alice Chenoweth was excoriated in Ohio’s newspapers in 1876 for having an affai...

One hundred years ago this month, women won their fight for the right to vote – though not all of them. Black women, who had pleaded as passionatel...