Search the Library

We left it to you to choose between two memorable Cage roles and, by vote, you picked the passionate pursuer of an Academy Award-winning Cher in...

In a discussion of his book Mount Washington Cemetery: In Search of Lost Time, local historian Bruce Mathews spotlights the...

Sitting at the nation’s crossroads, Kansas C...

There was no greater boon to Kansas City’s early development than the opening of the Hannibal Bridge in 1869. Designed by civil engineer Octave Chanut...

The infamous Missouri Executive Order 44 – known as the Extermination Ord...

Before the Lewis and Clark Expedition arrived at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers in 1804 and a young St. Louis couple, Francois and B...

Carmaletta Williams, chief executive officer of the Black Archives of Mid-America, discusses her work with the Equal Justice Initiati...

Mark Twain said there are “bad actresses, fair actresses, good actresses, great actresses – and then there is Sarah Bernhardt.” The leg...

The lower Missouri River was a veritable steamboat graveyard in the 19th century as more than 300 vessels ended up at the bottom of the Big Muddy....

Mel Brooks delivers a classic comedy about the infamous scientist’s American grandson (Gene Wilder), who in seeking to redeem his family’s name – and...