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In conjunction with an evening reception celebrating the Library exhibition...

The Kansas City Indian Center and Haskell Indian Nations University join in launching the Library’s community-wide...

When Michael Mardikes began visiting Thomas...

In rescuing some 70 enslaved people from Maryland’s Eastern Shore in the 1850s, shepherding them north along the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman...

Perhaps no one took more meaning from the advent of the automobile—and its promise of freedom and adventure, power and self-expression—than African...

In their current solo exhibitions Sanctuaries and kaleidoscope, Kansas City artists Amy and Misha Klig...

As the first of 70,000 U.S. Marines swept onto Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, victory was all but certain. The Americans had an overwhelming numeri...

In a discussion of her new book, Towson University’s Jeannie Vanasco walks through her lingering trauma, feelings of betrayal, and...

In 1934, brothers Dizzy and Daffy Dean were stars of Major League Baseball’s regular season and World Series. Following their St. Louis Cardinals’...

Barbara Strozzi defied the constraints of the times in which she lived. Born just over 400 years ago, gifted as a singer and composer, she was o...