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Reporters with ABC television affiliate KMBC 9 have spent a year studying the consequences of both the unchecked pile-up of trash in some parts of Kan...

Art Lujin, a former manager of aircraft engineering during a nearly 26-year career with TWA and now a guide at Kansas City’s TWA Museum, recounts the...

Bobbleheads of baseball players are a popular giveaway at ballparks across the nation. But why? Phil Sklar, co-founder and CEO of the National Bobbleh...

Understanding the centuries-old Arab-Israeli conflict and the crisis that now grips the Gaza Strip is not easy. In a special and timely event, militar...

We want our cities to be more affordable, more equitable, more vibrant and sustainable. Among the necessary fixes, former New York City planner Nolan...

As Vladimir Putin engages in nuclear saber-rattling amid Russia’s assault on Ukraine, military historian Gates Brown of the U.S. Army Command and Gene...

Drawing from copious research and interviews with principal participants for his new book Mafia Dreams: A True Crime Saga of Young Men at the End of a...

In a discussion of his book The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War, historian and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Da...

In a special Missouri Valley Saturdays presentation, Suzanne Hogan, creator and producer of KCUR public radio’s A People’s History of Kansas City, dis...

In the latest installment of the Library’s Turning Points series in partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, military histori...