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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 of...

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...

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

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

Bill Zahner made a tough call shortly after taking charge of the family business in the late 1970s, shifting the focus of the A. Zahn...

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

In Gryphon, his career-spanning collection of short stories, author Charles Baxter offers yarns in which our acutely observe...

Library Director Crosby Kemper III conducts a public conversation with Roshann Parris, president and CEO of the award-winning public...

Anthony Swofford's new memoir, Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails, chronicles how in the years after the success...