The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
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It was inevitable that the bawdy, alcohol-infused culture of 19th-century Kansas City would draw the ire of social reformers and prohibi...
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Today’s hyper-political sensitivity to U.S. Supreme Court appointments traces back to the only president elected from Missouri. Harry Truman revolu...
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When President Franklin Roosevelt signed a 1941 executive order banning discrimination in the military and all other government agencies “because o...
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In commemoration of the bicentennial anniversary of the Santa Fe Trail, historian Joy L. Poole examines the stories of five wives who...
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While his story is not widely known, Kansas City civil rights leader Leon M. Jordan was among the most influential African Americans in Missou...
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Harry S. Truman was scarcely prepared to assume the presidency upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in April 1945. He’d been vice president for...
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The model for fairly selecting judges across much of our country is known as the Missouri Plan, born some 80 years ago in response to the political...
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The Library’s long, popular partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth resumes with the first in a new serie...
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a pop culture icon – “the Notorious RBG” – by the end of her life. Upon her death last week, at age 87, she inevitably beca...
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How close are we to ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment? The question hangs anew over Congress. And the courts. Erica Bens...