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In a discussion of his new book, Mark Bowden (author of the best-seller Black Hawk Down) details one of...

The Vietnam War still has the power to divide Americans between those for and against it—and just as surely, between those who remember the era fir...

As part of the multi-library Big Read initiative revolving around The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s seminal book about the Vietnam War,...

Kansas City-area artist Jessica Kincaid, who works from a palette of colorful beads rather than paint, discusses her work in an illus...

Glenn North, the inaugural poet laureate of Kansas City’s 18th & Vine Jazz District, discusses his work as an accompli...

The country continues to struggle with the issue of capital punishment and questions ranging from how fairly sentences are imposed and carried out to...

Nearly 4½ decades after arriving at the Kansas City Art Institute from his native South Wales, Warren Rosser stands as one of the city’s creative mast...

Incentives of various types are widely offered to encourage and promote economic development – a point of competition and controversy in a years-long...

Educators and researchers have long recognized the importance of mastering reading by the end of third grade. Students falling short often falter in l...

The Library, in partnership with American Public Square, launches a series of discussions of polarizing local issues – minus the inci...