Southeast branch is opening late at noon on Saturday, September 28, due to staffing issues.
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Even outside of his native Kansas City, Evan S. Connell is regarded as a modern master in literary circles. However, until now no one has written e...
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Mark Twain said there are “bad actresses, fair actresses, good actresses, great actresses – and then there is Sarah Bernhardt.”
The legendary F...
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By most accounts, modern history is rooted in Spain and Columbus and and the discovery of the New World to the west more than five centuries a...
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Pulitzer-Prize winning author Joseph J. Ellis and the Library’s Steve Woolfolk discuss his newest book, The Cause...
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Have we been too hard on George W. Bush?
Drawing in part from a raft of newly available archival records, noted historian...
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Author Mallory O’Meara joins the Library’s Kaite Stover in a discussion of O’Meara’s new book Girly Drin...
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The lower Missouri River was a veritable steamboat graveyard in the 19th century as more than 300 vessels ended up at the bottom of the Big Muddy....
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What none of us want to so much as think about, Ivan Maisel and his family endured six years ago. Not long after his 21st birthday...
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While accounts of Jewish resistance during World War II tend to focus on armed uprisings in ghettos and guerilla warfare and sabotage in the forest...
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Drawing from her bestselling book The Sum of Us, strategist and political commentator Heather McGhee examin...