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Historian Bill Worley discusses the arrival and settlement of French traders in what’s now Kansas City’s West Bottoms area – but then was India...

Join the Library at its recently renovated Southeast Branch for a day of community celebration. Visit our space and check out refreshed collect...

The Library kicks off a new series with The Kansas City Star to discuss the news and issues that matter to Kansas Citians. I...

Looking for a bold way to redefine the spaces outside your home? Award-winning gardening journalist Ethne Clarke offers a fresh guide – with so...

The University of Notre Dame’s Peter Holland, one of the world’s foremost authorities on Shakespeare, examines the great playwright’s...

Writer and filmmaker Karen Kelleher Bacon explores the enduring global obsession with author Jane Austen, a product of her literary genius, man...

Joaquin Zihuatanejo, one of our country’s most entertaining and compelling poets, discusses and reads from his newest collection of works, Arsonis...

In the keynote address for the Quindaro Symposium, held April 19-21 in Kansas City, Kansas, historian Quintard Taylor exp...

Author Laila Lalami discusses her acclaimed novel The Moor’s Account, a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Priz...

U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II and his wife, Dianne Cleaver, recognize local high school artists amid an exhibit of their works at the Cen...