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While perceived as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence existed everywhere in the decades following the Civil War – including Kansas and t...

Local author and LEGO enthusiast Jonathan Bender headlines a public event marking the launch of the Library's new KC Kids Cre...

If you’re not familiar with the theory of disruptive innovation, you’ve seen it at work: the advent of the personal computer, the rise of Netflix,...

The Library, in partnership with American Public Square, launches a series of discussions of polarizing local issues – minus the i...

On their first date, a canoe outing in southern Africa, where they both lived, Alexandra Fuller and husband-to-be Charlie Ross wer...

College graduates last May held an unenviable distinction: They left school deeper in debt than any class before them. Those who’d taken out studen...

As Jen Mann notes, her nationally popular blog is called "People I Want to Punch in the Throat" and not "Rainbows and Unicorns." So i...

Kansas-reared Robert Day, author of the modern western classic The Last Cattle Drive, sits down with Library Director...

What is it like to be the son or daughter of an absolute and ruthless dictator? To bear a name – Stalin or Mussolini, Mao or Ceausescu, Qaddafi or...

The Library, in partnership with American Public Square, launches a series of discussions of polarizing local issues – minus the i...