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U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, whose acclaimed An American Sunrise is the focus of the Library’s Big...

What is Kansas City’s master plan for the next 20 years? The city’s three principal planning officers, Jeffrey Williams, Diane Binckley, and Kyle Elli...

Kansas City has an infrastructure problem. Simply put, it can’t afford what it needs. Dennis Strait of the Kansas City studio of Gould Evans, an archi...

Which areas offer Kansas City the greatest potential for smart long-term growth? Urban planner Joe Minicozzi and Chuck Marohn, founder of the nonprofi...

Kansas City-based urban planner, designer, and architect Kevin Klinkenberg examines why and how cities being reinvented today, who the winners and los...

Susan Rademacher, a leader in the nationwide parks conservancy movement for three decades, examines the challenge of keeping Kansas City’s signature s...

Leon Younger, one of the nation’s most accomplished parks and recreation consultants, continues a three-part study of Kansas City’s distinctive system...

Keith Culbertson, the chairman and CEO of Design Workshop and a George Kessler historian, launches a three-part study of Kansas City’s distinctive sys...

There remains a haunting stillness over the grounds around Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland, where 3,650 Union and Confederate soldiers perish...

Public historians Diane Eickhoff and Aaron Barnhart recall how hundreds of women defied cultural norms of the time t...