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The year 2012 was a watershed for the Hollywood movie industry, producing the likes of Silver Linings Playbook, Les Misérables,...

On this date 99 years and 364 days ago, the Panama Canal opened and revolutionized maritime trade. It also threw the Panama Railroad and its parall...

Tapped to be Franklin Roosevelt’s spymaster during World War II, William Joseph “Wild Bill” Donovan became a mythic figure in the his...

Well before the famous 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City sparked the modern gay rights movement, Kansas City had its own active gay rights communi...

Celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman as education reformer Virginia Walden Ford...

The Women’s Center at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, in conjunction with the Kansas City Public Libr...

A series of town hall meetings are scheduled at various branches of The Kansas City Public Library throughout March...

A series of town hall meetings are scheduled at various branches of The Kansas City Public Library throughout March...

On Thursday, November 13, at 7 p.m. at the Plaza Branch, 4801 Main St., a pane...