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Tapping new resources and research tools, local historian Michael Sweeney has produced the first new historical assessment in 20 year...

Not far from 18th and Vine streets, some of the most notable chapters in Kansas City’s Black history sprang from a single city block on Montgall Avenu...

West Bottoms Whiskey Co. founder Alex Lindsey examines...

In the latest installment of the Library’s Conflict and Crisis series, a panel of military historians and experts from the U....

Military historian Brian Steed of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College recounts the history-altering c...

The full truth of the deadly collapse of two 120-foot skywalks in Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency hotel in 1981 rested for decades in a manuscript writ...

A little more than a year into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, John Herbst, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine and current senior director of t...

A year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a panel of military experts from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College examines the impact of...

Drawing from his book Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap, University of Connecticut history professor...

Three local business owners -- Kemet Coleman, La’Nae Robinson, and La’Nesha Frazier -- help the Library kick off a new four-pa...