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Before he was known as "Wild Bill,” famed frontiersman and gunfighter James Butler Hickok spent three formative years as a young man in the Kansas Cit...

Drawing from their respective books, KelLee Parr and Stephen Rowley share their personal connections to The Willows, the most prominent of Kansas City...

In a special Missouri Valley Saturdays discussion of her new book States of Swing: The History of the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra, 2003-2023, author Li...

Join KCUR Community Engagement Reporter Laura Ziegler in an informal discussion with voters’ advocates, including representatives...

The Library and KCUR 89.3 kick off Securing Democracy, a three-part series inviting the community and its leaders to discuss securing democr...

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

Less than 100 days before Americans go to the polls, the latest installment of Dateline: Washington examines what has been one of the...

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

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

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