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Bestselling Kansas City author Candice Millard discusses her new book River of the Gods with the Library’s Anne Kniggendorf. In the mid-18...

Historian Emilye Crosby of the State University of New York at Geneseo discusses the significance of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the crucial rol...

This year, prepare yourself for CAGE MATCH, a monthly pairing of two Nicolas Cage movies engaged in epic cinematic combat. Which films will be scre...

In a discussion of her book Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One, New York urban revital...

Military historian Geoff Babb assesses the historical accuracy of the 1963 film 55 Days at Peking, which delivers an epic retelling of a c...

Award-winning essayist and poet Taylor Brorby discusses his new memoir Boys and Oil, recounting the uneasiness of being gay in a rugged land of coa...

Get the scoop behind Kansas City’s newest, biggest, and most family-friendly scavenger hunt. Anne Kniggendorf, a writer and editor at the Li...

This year, prepare yourself for CAGE MATCH, a monthly pairing of two Nicolas Cage movies engaged in epic cinematic combat. Which films will be scre...

David Mills and Kayla Westra, co-authors of Great Wartime Escapes and Rescues, assess the historical accuracy of the classic 1963 film...

We left it to you to choose between two memorable Cage roles and, by vote, you picked the passionate pursuer of an Academy Award-winning Cher in...