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Award-winning writer, critic, and editor John Freeman launched the year’s most anticipated literary magazine, the biannual Freeman’s, in S...

In the wake of the Super Tuesday primaries, the Library and the Truman Library Institute launch a new season of Dateline:...

Among the things Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants left behind when they fled Kandahar after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was a cache...

The latest installment of Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III spotlights two of the Midwest’s greatest artists, Kansas City’s Thomas...

Kansas City novelist and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with author Elizabeth Ga...

The latest installment of the Library’s Emmy Award-winning series, Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III, spotlights one of t...

Kansas City author and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with one of the country’s most...

A conversation with eminent writer Ernest Hemingway, as portrayed by Rusty Sneary....

From Kansas City’s signature Country Club Plaza to pristine shopping districts and neighborhoods across the country, J.C. Nichols’ imprint on the Amer...

Remember Barack Obama’s subtle 2008 putdown of Hillary Clinton, when he called her “likable enough?” Maybe the joke is on him....