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Among its most noteworthy achievements, the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) conducted more than 2,000 interviews with former slaves in 17 states f...

Historian Jerrold Hirsch leads a presentation called Portrait of America: A Cultural History of the Federal Writers' Proj...

The Kansas City Public Library welcomes architecture critic Ulf Meyer to discuss Cities of the Pacific Century...

The Women’s Center at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, in conjunction with the Kansas City Public Libr...

Kansas City native Joe Drape presents his book, Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen, o...

National World War I Museum Vice President of Museum Programs Eli Paul discusses the role marketing, and specif...

Local civil rights activist Alvin Sykes discusses his incredible journey from high school dropout to law-making crusader against...

On Wednesday, July 15, at 6:30 p.m. at the Plaza Branch, 4801 Main St., true-c...

Participate in the International Year of Astronomy when Dr. Steven Hawley—astronomer, astrophysicist and a...

Gary Pomerantz talks about his new true- crime book set in Kansas City, The Devil’s Tickets: A Night of Bridge, a Fatal Hand, and...