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Writer and director Doug Roland joins in a screening and discussion of his groundbreaking short film Feeling Through...

Less than one week after taking office, new Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas joins veteran KMBC television news reporter Mi...

Military historian Harry S. Laver of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College looks back at Paris’ deliverance in 1944 from mo...

What does film tell us about our fascination with and perception of the moon? University of Missouri-Kansas City film studies professor Mitch...

He has been the face of Kansas City for eight years. Now, as Sly James completes his second and mandatory final term as mayor, he loo...

The legend of George S. Patton is one of triumph touched by controversy. He delivered both in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, setting the s...

The son of a World War II veteran and himself a decorated former Marine who fought a year in Vietnam, Karl Marlantes based his fir...

Anita O’Brien, an original co-curator of the Library’s special traveling exhibit, Ralph Steadman: A Retrospective, d...

Drive through the Mississippi Delta today, and you’ll find it dotted with memorials to major figures and events from the civil rights movement. Most c...

Writer Claire L. Evans, a contributor to Vice, The Guardian, and Wired and former editor of the multiplatf...