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LaShonda Katrice Barnett’s debut novel—about a black female journalist escaping the early-1900s Jim Crow laws of the South a...

Kansas mills, located literally in the breadbasket of America, produced an enormous quantity of flour in an era when women routinely baked their fa...

Sifting through the stacks of her local library in Hamburg, Germany, Jennifer Teege happened upon a book that first fascinated and...

For Abraham Lincoln, the road to the future always began in the past – with the Founding Fathers, who inspired him to take up public life, showed him...

The image still haunts: desperate refugees on a Saigon rooftop, snaking up a ladder to a waiting helicopter and escape from the North Vietnamese on...

The Kansas City Public Library hosts the annual Missouri 5th Congressional District student art exhibit and town hall gathering, where U.S....

The importance of libraries continues to grow. More than book repositories, they can serve as bulwarks against some of the most critical challenges...

Women comprise about half of the U.S. labor force, including half of all professional and management positions. But they account for fewer than 15...