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As part of the Indie Lens Pop-Up film series, the Library and KCPT–Kansas City PBS screen the documentary Tell Them We Are Rising...

In conjunction with Black History Month, Gary Kremer, director of the State Historical Society of Missouri, examines the journey of Missouri’s...

Former Defense Department cyber security chief Katherine Charlet, now with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, assesses the rising...

Searching the Psyche Through Cinema, the annual screening-and-discussion series, continues this year’s psychological studies of films directed by the...

The Central Library provides a perfect family-friendly starting point on First Friday. Among the offerings: the exhibit Cattle, Cowboys, and Cultur...

West Texas A&M University’s Amy Von Lintel, co-creator of the Library exhibit Cattle, Cowboys, and Culture, looks at the seedier side of...

Fifty years to the day after the launch of the Tet Offensive of 1968, Bud Meador of the U.S. Army General Command and Staff College examines...

Chuck Marohn, founder of the nonprofit Strong Towns, launches the Making a Great City series with a critical look at how we build our cities and towns...

In a discussion of his book For All Children Everywhere, a comprehensive history of Kansas City’s renowned Children’s Mercy...

Before opening Auschwitz and other notorious death camps, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi German adherents carried out a grim and deadly prelude. In an e...