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Military historian Sean Kalic of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College looks back on the 1957 space shot heard ’round the world: the Soviet...

French Emperor and military commander Napoleon Bonaparte continues to fascinate, even centuries after his death. Jonathan Abel, associate professor of...

In the latest installment of the Library’s Turning Points series in partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, military histori...

Participants from Glenn North’s May 1 poetry workshop take the stage to share their work. The readings draw heavily from U.S. Poet...

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

Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) commemorates Veterans Day with a script-in-hand reading of Aaron Sorkin’s sizzl...

Commemorating Veterans Day, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) deliver a script-in-hand performance of...

In a script-in-hand performance commemorating Labor Day, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) read select...

In the latest installment of the Library’s popular Script-in-Hand series, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival offers a unique performance of The...

Former ambassador David F. Lambertson, who served in Saigon in the mid-1960s as a member of the American embassy’s political secti...