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In a discussion of his exhibit Dissident Formalisms, Kansas City artist Armin Mühsam examines the use of co...

Richard Nixon lamented that he would be remembered only for Watergate and warming relations with China. He wasn’t wrong – about the wreckage of Wat...

By most accounts, modern history is rooted in Spain and Columbus and and the discovery of the New World to the west more than five centuries a...

Have we been too hard on George W. Bush?  Drawing in part from a raft of newly available archival records, noted historian...

Author Mallory O’Meara joins the Library’s Kaite Stover in a discussion of O’Meara’s new book Girly Drin...

Rep. Sharice Davis, in her second precedent-setting term in the U.S. House from Kansas’ 3rd District, discusses her new picture-book...

Sheri Rosenblum of the San Francisco-based Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation recounts the courage and invaluable contributions o...

Cities are made to be walked – or should be, given the economic, environmental, and medical benefits.  How far is Kansas City from...

The Library celebrates the life and work of Missouri-born poet, playwright, and novelist Langston Hughes in a multifaceted event coin...

Alvin Brooks’ mark on civil rights history in Kansas City – on the city’s history in total – is indelible. Born into povert...