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Historian Joel Rhodes, who led research for the Library exhibit It Finally Happened Here: The Kansas City Riot, April 9-12, 1968...

From Patsy Cline (two days before she perished in a plane crash in 1963) to the Beatles to the Jacksons’ Victory Tour, former Kansas City Star...

Rutgers University historian Rachel Devlin examines an underappreciated aspect of civil rights history – the crucial role of young African-Amer...

Thomas Frank is a liberal by conviction but an equal-opportunity critic of America’s foundering political system. In a discussion of...

The Library and KCPT-Kansas City PBS begin a search for solutions in the second installment of a series examining eviction in the...

It appears to be the find of a lifetime. Shakespeareans worldwide were electrified earlier this year by the announced discovery of a previously unk...

The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s four-part series of inside-the-play presentations focuses on its summer production of...

Strike up the band! The latest installment of the Library’s special, intergenerational movie series for individuals with dementia, thei...

In the second part of a two-day Songwriter in You program, Victor & Penny discuss their work as professional musicians in...

Americans already have seen some benefits, in the form of smaller payroll withholdings, from the new tax law signed last December. But for the most pa...