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As part of the Making a Great City series, Jenny Schuetz, Senior Fellow at Brookings Metro, discusses her latest book Fixer-Upper: How to Repair Ameri...

What does it mean to be a “great city”? Since 2018, the Library has hosted public presentations by urban planners and round-table conversations with c...

Kansas Citians go to the polls in April and June to elect a mayor and 12 city council members who will direct the city for the next four years. Wha...

Kansas Citians go to the polls in April and June to elect a mayor and 12 city council members who will direct the city for the next four years. Wha...

It’s easy to think of World War I as a European war, but fierce fighting all over the Middle East brought about great changes on socio-economic, cu...

What happens when German spies collaborate to unleash a campaign of terror upon America at the start of World War I? In Dark Inva...

Former State Department and CIA intelligence analyst Mark Stout discusses the birth of modern American espionage during World War I, from aerial recon...

Historian Petra DeWitt examines the suspicions and hostilities faced by Missouri’s sizable German American population during World War I, including qu...

At 7 in the morning on February 21, 1916, the ground in northern France began to shake. For the next 10 hours, some 1,200 German guns showered shel...

The Library launches a series of programs commemorating the centennial of the start of World War I with military historian D.M. Giangreco’s look at 34...